parth Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Hi everyone, I am learning Houdini watching videos. I saw videos on cloth toolset with FEM solver used in Houdini 15 but I am using Houdini 17 and in 17 they just have vellum solver. So, I am confused with how different they are from each other? I hope you understand the question. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 I started explaining, but then realized I couldn't do as good of a job as SideFX already has :). http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/finiteelements/about.html The old cloth solver was FEM based and the Vellum solver is PBD which is a particle based solver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parth Posted December 20, 2018 Author Share Posted December 20, 2018 Thank you so much Marc, I appreciate your time and help. Now to clarify one more query, new Houdini does not have FEM solver, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 As far as I know the "cloth object" in DOPs is the FEM solver and the "vellum object" is PBD, so you can setup a sim with whichever solver you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyei nightmare Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 im on this right now, and i can say that, in a real world "battlefield" FEM is resolving all that i want, very clean logic, very stable, vellum is still esoteric and a mistery... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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