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redshift proxy's shaders picking up random colours from the points they're instanced onto
willpreston posted a topic in General Houdini Questions
Hi Guys, is there a way to have tree meshes scattered on a terrain with variance in leaf colour on every single tree so that no two are the same colour? back in the Softimage/ICE days i could scatter points on a terrain mesh and give the points a random colour then i'd create a plant or tree mesh with different materials for bark, leaves etc, in Softimage's node based material builder i would plug in an attribute node into a colour mixer merged in with the leaf texture map, this attribute would read the random colour generated on the scattered points then i'd export the tree mesh as a Redshift proxy at render time the proxies would be loaded in, and each individual tree's leaves would be given an individual colour variation within a specified range based on the random colour from the scattered points this would mean each individual tree would have a unique colour added to its leaves and would be quick in the viewport/quick to render because of RS proxies (it also worked for Arnold standins) I've been trying to do this in Houdini but am hitting a wall, I've tried material style sheets but that requires me to create a different override for each parameter i want to control then assign specific trees to those overrides, its still not giving me unique colour variation per tree, its also quite a pain to set up, on top of that mat style sheets don't work if there's more than one material on a mesh which makes it redundant in this scenario I've also tried user data + attributes + shader switch but again you're using a mixer to switch between different specific shaders that you have to individually build, am i missing something? thanks for your help Houdiniers -
First dump from a home-brew Grammar system expressed iteratively as an evolving growth system. A decade of hunting down Blackberries to their roots - to remove them from my yard; A month of looking at and sketching Blackberry growth in the wild. A day with Houdini Apprentice, and a single point of geometry to seed the system. Then just turned it on. There's fewer than 100 lines of code, and I'd guess about a dozen substitution rules in the grammar system. Emergence is an effective approach for modelling organic processes. Blackberry_h17.13.hipnc
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this is my first post here, sorry if this has already been solved, i've got a speedtree alembic mesh with lots of leaves that don't have thickness, ive applied the principled shader and plugged an image for opacity and one for colour, but i want to add another one for translucency so that the sun light comes through the layers of leaves showing the veins and green-ness in the leaves, SSS would be the obvious answer but the leaves don't have thickness, and there's a lot of them (its a forest) is this possible with the principled shader? i know its relatively simple in MR, Arnold, redshift? thanks guys
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Hello, I'm looking to create a kelp forrest like the reference below and being novice to houdini was wondering the best way to approach it... I started with a line sop and resampling I could copy sop'ing my leaves onto that. I'm looking to add dynamic moment to the kelp and wasn't sure if I should use cloth? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks,
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Hey people, take a look at my bachelor thesis film „CRYSTALLOtroph”. It was made at the UAS Kaiserslautern. The tools were Houdini and Nuke. Have fun watching!
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Hi guys I'm working on a field plants dynamic and set dressing project like the attached image; So I'm confused about the pipeline for simulating the wind effect. I used wire solver and I simulated some of plants individually but for scattering those, I should use rotation for different look and now the wind direction won't look right. also simulating all the plants together is not an easy and efficient task. So is there a better way? can you please give me a hint? Thank you
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It was supposed to be an entry for splash screen but unfortunately I couldn't finish it on time with deadlines at work. So here is work in progress of my 100% procedural Aloe vera, first test render from Houdini 13 with ray traced SSS which increased render speed drastically from H12. Straight from mantra. Cheers
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My current development. Digital asset for creating production-ready animated trees and other plants. A few types of wind (Real time wind system and accurate dynamic wind), many many options to customize plant as you wish. Additional examples of wind animation will be a little later. Basically, you need only 8 hours to create fully dynamical 3d tree. (2-3 hours for tweak a shape and all other time for dynamic) Implemented by python, HDK, and a lot of free time This is noncommercial thing. - Module system for any kinds of vegetation - All in one DA - Maximum flexibility - Fast internal modules based on HDK ( C++) - Auto smooth trunks - Dynamics - Leaves mesh builder http://vimeo.com/58316944 Please, feel free to contact me any time. Thanks.