Introduction to Fluids in Houdini
Learn a flexible workflow for particle-based and volume-based simulations in Houdini as well as production-applicable techniques to create realistic fire, smoke, and liquid effects. Software required: Houdini 9.5 and up.
What you'll learn
Learn a flexible workflow for particle-based and volume-based simulations in Houdini as well as production-applicable techniques to create realistic fire, smoke, and liquid effects. Contains over 3.5 hours of self-paced training with several practical projects. Ideal for new and intermediate artists. Popular highlights include: Particle-based Fluids; Volume-based Fluids; Ripple Solver; Viscosity; Fire, Smoke and Liquid simulations; Smoke Solver; Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics; Microsolvers; Visualizing Simulation Attributes; Rendering Fluids in Mantra; Source, Sink and Pump; Physical Properties; Rigid Body Dynamics; Gas Constant; Fuel and Temperature; Vorticles; Caching; Forces and Expressions; Creating and Painting Attributes. Software required: Houdini 9.5 and up.
Table of contents
- Particle Fluids: Creation and Visualization 9m
- Particle Fluids: Setting up Collisions 9m
- Particle Fluids: Caching and Rendering 6m
- Emitting Particle Fluids 7m
- Sinking Particle Fluids 6m
- Emitting and Sinking from Objects 5m
- Pouring Liquid into a Container 9m
- Physical Properties 5m
- Particle Fluid Surfacing 7m
- Beginning to Mix Liquid Colors with Microsolvers 6m
- Mixing Liquid Colors with Microsolvers 9m
- Final Simulation Tweaks 8m
- Using the Sculpted Particle Fluid Tool 6m
- Working with Liquid Containers 8m
- Liquid Emission and Interaction 6m
- Continuing Liquid Emission and Interaction 3m
- Initial States and Liquid Caching 7m
- Rendering Liquids 4m
- Smoke and Fire Solvers 6m
- Starting the Smoke Stack Simulation 6m
- Driving Simulations with Forces 8m
- Finishing the Smoke Stack 8m
- Building a Cigarette Fume with 2D Containers 6m
- Adding Vorticles 8m
- Shading and Rendering the Fume Effect 7m
- Using the Burst into Flame Tool 7m
- Ripple Solver Setup 6m
- Simulating Ripple-inducing Raindrops 10m
- Per-point Ripple Solver Attributes 6m
About the author
Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Sunder has made great headway in both the interactive game design and 3D animation worlds. Throughout his career, Sunder has earned degrees in computer information science, multimedia & game design, as well as 3D character animation. He's fully devoted to providing breathtaking and out-of-the-norm experiences to as many people as possible. With a powerful skillset in Houdini and years of educational clout, Sunder aims to give understandable solutions to complex to... more