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Hello everyone, Wondering if someone has suggestions on how to achieve this level of details with Houdini? I tried with grains, displacement, geometry, textures... I can't seem to get it to look right. VDB's seem to be quite versatile to achieve some of the general textures and shapes, but the end results is always too round and soft. Looking for: - Fine powder - Sharp cracks and fractured pieces - Mix of smooth and crumbled / rough areas - Small random chunks Are there suitable techniques I am missing or out of luck for this level of details? Thanks! -
Hi. I'm currently working on vellum grain. I want to make the grain look like gravel, but i don't know how to proceed with copy instancing. So... I want to give detail to the grains of sand. If you have any good tips, please let me know. (If you have a good example or hip file, please share.) Thanks. -
Hey everyone ! I would need your help on a sand simulation that I'm working on. It's a 10m high building which is supposed to crumble as a sand castle. My first thought was to try to do it with vellum grains, but the issue is that I'm getting limited by the amount of particles that I can have. Indeed, my GPU gets full and I've got the classic Kernel issue error in the console, meaning I just can't simulate my thing. I've tried to disable every OpenCL buttons that I could find on the solver (OpenCL Graph Coloring & OpenCL Neighbor Search) thinking it would just disable the use of the GPU for the sim, eventhough I knew it would make it really slow (at least it would have been computed). But it didn't work. Then I tried to use POP Grains cause from what I've understood, it's not using any GPU accelerated system. But I've got the same issue, the sim just can't be cooked. Would you have any suggestion for me ? I'm running this on a Threadripper 3960x and a RTX 3080. test_10.mp4
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Hi all,I am making a ground breaking effect in which a stone comes out of the ground and making primary debris and all.The condition is I also required to bring soil and ground dirt during eruptions I have managed to use the vellum grains to solve this, along I have used the "attach to geometry" constraints to make the vellum grains stick to the broken pieces. But now I also want during the collapse and hit on ground once the pieces fall on ground and make an impact ,some amount of dirt should also left on floor due to the impact. I can do this while playing with the breaking threshold but its not on per Debri I want to customize it so only some pieces would leave dirt rest not all. If anybody wants a file I can share too.
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Hi all,I am making a ground breaking effect in which a stone comes out of the ground and making primary debris and all.The condition is I also required to bring soil and ground dirt during eruptions I have managed to use the vellum grains to solve this, along I have used the "attach to geometry" constraints to make the vellum grains stick to the broken pieces. But now I also want during the collapse and hit on ground once the pieces fall on ground and make an impact ,some amount of dirt should also left on floor due to the impact. I can do this while playing with the breaking threshold but its not on per Debri I want to customize it so only some pieces would leave dirt rest not all. If anybody wants a file I can share too.
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Hi, I'm extremely new to Houdini and I'm trying to create sand winds like in here: My approach is to create particles (sand grains) that spawn on the heightfield, before being blown by a wind simulation or something (or instead of individual grains, just a smoke simulation) What I have so far is a Procedural desert heightfield. I followed a tutorial to set up a smoke simulation that advects to a pyro,, but I'm struggling with setting up collisions and figuring out how to spawn the smoke/sand procedurally on the heightfield. My pyro sim: My heightfield: Any help would be much appreciated! I can elaborate on any part so I can get advice better.
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okay so i've got a little issue here... I have FINALLY (After 30 hours of twiddling) got a really nice fairly stable sand grains anim going that interacts nicely with my char. so i've got my node network which is a basic off the shelf grains upres... i'm trying to wrap my head around whats happening in setseed_adjust_scale attribute wrangle node but i cant suss it out anyway what i want to do is vary the scale of my upres particles making some bigger and some smaller. so in my head i drop in a new attribute wrangle node (circled red in the pic) and i add the following: float @pscale = 1; @pscale = rand (0.002, 0.006); and BLAM! my pc fan after 30 seconds nearly ran out the window screaming!!!!! Its done this twice now and just locks up hou and the pc! so i'm properly stuck here - i cant figure out how to vary the scale of those upres particles - they are all the same size Anyone got any ideas on how to adjust this? ta ant
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Dear friends I´m a new Houdini user and I´m trying to do something different from most of the sand sims. I have a thread of sand falling from the hole of an hourglass, and I´m trying to do build a sand object as the sand falls on the container bellow the hole. The question is, how can I direct my sand particles to become the object that I want? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
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Smoke rbd houdini + hip file In this asset, the dynamics of the interaction of solid objects with volimetry as well as the dynamics of the destruction of the object are added. https://artstn.co/m/JnJq hip file Cloud and fire houdini + hip file This project presents the procedural modeling of stones, creating a lightning strike, working with sand, clouds, and fire. The final animation can be viewed at the link below or in my portfolio. https://artstn.co/m/Bq6a hip file Lava smoke houdini + hip file This asset presents the dimanics of hot lava smoke, the dynamics of the lava itself, and the shaders of smoke and lava The final animation render can be viewed at the link below or in my portfolio https://artstn.co/m/pJaG hip file Ice smoke houdini + hip file In this asset, not only work on creating cold smoke is presented, but also work with sand and its dynamics, particle emitter, procedural modeling of crystals and stones, as well as a full render of a scene with shaders. The animation that happened in this can be seen on the link below. https://artstn.co/m/d0Ak hip file
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hi, I am testing vellum, and have a question. When testGeo is coming up from ground, all vellum particles are influenced and pushed away. Also, when he hit ground with hummer and lift it up, particles looks being sucked into holes made by hummer. However, these particle reaction should not reach such far away distance. I'd like to know how to control the influence distance. So far, I am thinking of solutions: 1 - reduce constraint iteration, 2 - make a space between particles at emission/creation times. 3 - add more friction, increase particle separate / highres- sim, etc. This result could be ok for sand FX, but when making snow ground, this won't work. Particles should be very rigid, and particle only moves around testGeo's feet and hummer. If anyone knows how to control it properly, let me know thanks!!
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Hello! I have recently been offered my FIRST FX job! I am familiar with Maya, and some Max, but this job requires that i use Houdini, so now i am all in! VERY EXCITED!!! I have a scene where i have to make some letters rise from sand. The issue is that i cannot get things to collide correctly. Doing my research i have tried using it as a RBD object, and using a trail sop to computer its velocity, but i still dont see any collisions. I use static object, pointing to a VDB smooth as the proxy geo, and all of the collision detection/mode set to volume, but no collisions still. I set the sim up with an initial state file too. Could that be the issue? When i take away the VDB to polygons and VDB smooth, delete and just run the sim as a regular static object, everything works! But...i get some weird artifacts rendering. What is the best approach to this method in Houdini? Im sure the solution is just a setting away, but im lost here. Any suggestions? LetterSetup_001_collProbs.hip
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Hi everyone. I have a scene with big rocks/mountains. I'd like to replicate this effect: and this one: And of course the snow would some evaporate and go over the slope, like shown in the picture I've attached. I have uploaded a hip file with what I'm doing so far in a much simplify version of my project, but I don't know how to make it look like 'big scale', with all the ripples and fine details. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks spindrift_snowDustBlowing.hipnc
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Hello guys, I'm struggling with making a basic setup with object emerging from the sand with vellum grains. Has anybody done something like this, do I need to use constraints or just pop awake? I'm sharing my basic scene Thanks! grains_test.hipnc
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I'm wondering what would be the best way of approaching an hourglass effect where the sand goes upwards. The hourglass has to be taken out of Houdini and into Maya and is going to be placed into a scene ontop of a table. Any help with how you would tackle this kind of effect.
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Started trying to make a Hour Glass effect but when i press play the grains appear on the outside of the geo, not sure what the problem is any ideas? HourglassSim.hipnc
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Hey magicians, I'm trying to create a thick layer of pyro (for a sand blowing effect) but so far I can't get the desired result, I got a decent view from distance but the camera is close to the floor so it gets bloby, any advice? this is the ref I'm trying to achieve And these are my tests so far Any advice will be awesome, thanks in advance!
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Hey magicians, I'm trying to create a thick layer of pyro (for a sand blowing effect) but so far I can't get the desired result, I got a decent view from distance but the camera is close to the floor so it gets bloby, any advice? this is the ref I'm trying to achieve And these are my tests so far Any advice will be awesome, thanks in advance!
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Hey magicians, I'm new to redshift, I'm trying to generate some sort of glossy particles to add some sexyness, but I can't get the desired result. What I tried is making 2 instances, 1 with the full point cloud, and the other with the glossy ones, but I can't make them to pop like the references. References: } What I have so far: Thanks!
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Hello, I have been experimenting with Grains node and shelf setups as as custom setups. I started with a sphere, then a sand castle and last was a statue. Some results were pleasant then I ran into some issues. Weird and strange behaviors such as floating sand clumps. Mainly it looks like too much force or friction. The problem that the solver feels like it is too sensitive (minor values can change things very quickly). Any pointers or advice is greatly appreciated. Copy_of_SandCastle.mp4 SandCastle_002.mov SandCastle_003.mp4 SandSolver_issue.mp4
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Hey folks, Hope all is well. Working on a close-up shot, Where a snake penetrates through some sand. I like to achieve a gentle and realistic interaction between the two objects, Effects of sand rolling on the snake and each other is desired too of course. However I'm clueless of how this possibly could be achieved. Please check the attached scene below. , Any help or hint would be greatly appreciated. grain_init.hipnc
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Hello all, I have a sand set up based on points being advected by vdb vel. The results come out nice enough but the motion is too fast. I need the speed sim/solver speed to remain the same though to retain the kind of details I'm getting so I can't just multiply the fps down in the solver to cheap a slow-mo effect. What I'm looking for is to simply retime the points post-cache and make my cache slow-mo, which actually works using a timewarp (I just stretched the output range an extra few hundred frames) -- The slo mo effect is achieved but there is obvious stepping in between frames where the cache will freeze and play ever other frame (due to the stretching) To avoid this kind of stepping I tried using a timeblendql, which seems to have almost worked but because my points are dying and being deleted based on age, the timewarp breaks. Timewarpql has a neat feature where you can use the v of the point to blend between subframes, but since I'm inheriting my point v from the vdb vel its not as accurate is if you were using a trail sop, and again the trail sop breaks in my scenario because of the points being deleted perhaps based on age.. I can smooth the points together in post with nuke using a frameblend and you don't see the stepping... But i'm sure there is a proper and procedural way to interpolate between the substep frames of the point between A + B... just not sure how to go about this and I am having trouble finding a reference on the net. It would also be nice to have this setup on hands in the future. Thanks for all your time!
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Hi! I'm a student at NAD in Montreal and I'm trying to learn Houdini. I have a project in which I need to simulate sand on top of a falling rocks RBD simulation, which is on top of a FEM sim. (The FEM is the deforming ground) So I cached every collision objects with the CollisionSource node (with 4 substeps to match de grain solver). Now, if I simulate the sand, it explode on random frames. (see flipbook here: password: sandsim This is my second attempt and it still explode (at fist I used 10 substeps) Does somebody have any ideas on what could be the issue? Thanks MountainGrowth_47.hipnc
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Hi, I am trying to make particles fly off a moving figure. so for example if he throws his arms in the air i want particles to fly of like sand. What is the best appraoch to this? I have tried using the trail node and attract pop but every time at some point no more particles emmit and just the ones that should fall to the ground are moved by the figure. I put a link to a flipbook render below. thanks test_Two_grain.mov
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Hello Houdini community, I was wondering if anyone had had the idea of using the new oceans tools to do sand effects. I am trying to figureout the best way to set up an object in a vast desert that is rising up through the sand. A number of years ago I took Spencer Leuders class on CG workshops using fluids and one of his classes used vops to manipulate the fluid to behave like sand. My thought is to take a similar approach but do it to a flip tank with an object rising from underneath the sand. This is how I think it should be setup, but don’t know if it’s the best way to do it. I would love any tips. Thank you guys for your time. Object rising.mov Ocean_Sand_v01.hip
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