Image-based Rigid Body Destruction in Houdini
Throughout this course we will discuss how realistic destruction can be done in a quick and easy way by using Houdini's Make Breakable shelf tool comibned with the Voronoi SOP leading to pre-fractured objects. Software Required: Houdini 14
What you'll learn
Throughout this course we will discuss how realistic destruction can be done in a quick and easy way by using Houdini's Make Breakable shelf tool comibned with the Voronoi SOP leading to pre-fractured objects. We will discover a new method to pre-fracture an object based simply on an image whether it be a photograph or image such as a brick or stone wall. We will then create the stone and mortar assets from the original geometry by prepping them to retain texture, break into clusters or bits, and have a layer of fine dust for the final effect that will be encapsulated in a digital asset with a variety of parameters. Software Required: Houdini 14
Table of contents
- Introducing Mortar and Stone 4m
- Establishing Dynamics of Simulation 10m
- Creating the Cut Image 10m
- Implementing the Image Breaker Digital Asset 11m
- Exploring UV Texturing for the Digital Asset 11m
- Detemining Bubbling up Parameters 12m
- Creating the Cut Points 11m
- Finalizing the Cut Points via Hsv Equations 8m
- Creating the Mortar Vdb 11m
- Creating the Solid Mortar 11m
- Generating the Stones Vdb 10m
- Flattening the Stones, Brick and Mortar 12m
- Finalizing the Stone and Mortar 11m
- Discovering the Mortar Break up Points 11m
- Exploding and Colorizing Mortar Bits 9m
- Preparing Polygon Reduction and Simulation 12m
- Bricks and Mortar Vs Stone and Mortar 10m
- Finalizing the Simulation 8m
About the author
Jeff Wolverton has been working on visual effects for major motion pictures for over 15 years, having created signature effects for Sony Pictures Imageworks, Digital Domain, Rythym & Hues, Framestore, MPC, Disney, and Dreamworks. He specializes in unique and unusual procedural effects, as well as the standards (fire, water, smoke, destruction, dust, fluids and atmospheric effects). He was also the screenwriter for the Academy Award-winning animated short, The ChubbChubbs!