Procedural SciFi Generator Modeling - Houdini 19.5 Tutorial

BECOME HOUDINI TECHNICAL ARTIST - PROCEDURAL MODELING

Welcome to the tutorial to start your journey as Houdini Technical Artist in Procedural Modeling. You'll learn how to create a Scifi generator Houdini Tool (HDA) from scratch with 0% manual modeling.

This 5-hour tutorial covers practical Houdini implementation for procedural modeling and advanced skills in VEX coding language. You'll be able to create amazing Houdini Tools that meet art-directionable technical requirements.

Course Trailer:

Format

• Video recording (5h) + Audio. All the stages are commented and described in detail (no skipping or steps omitted)

Content (5h)

0_Intro
1_Visual Target
2_Houdini Layout
3_Getting started
4_Floor silhouette
5_Recursive clipping_1
6_Recursive clipping_2
7_Recursive clipping_3
8_addons_1
9_orienting addons_1
10_orienting addons_2
11_orienting addons_3
12_Progress review_1
13_Splitting seed parameter_1
14_ui and code logic consistency_1
15_visualizing the data
16_Compute once plus reference code
17_Enable subtractors_1
18_Disable parms
19_Sticking to design contraints
20_Paneling - intro
21_Paneling - offset points
22_Paneling - breaking uniformity
23_Paneling - attribute casting
24_Paneling - scaling pieces
25_Paneling - sample attrs accros points and prims
26_Paneling - finishing scaling the pieces
27_Paneling - candidate geo and cleanup
28_Paneling - extrusion
29_Progress review_2
30_Procedural safe bevel 1
31_Procedural safe bevel 2
32_Procedural safe bevel 3
33_Procedural extrusion 1
34_Procedural extrusion 2
35_Setting up input
36_Symmetry
37_The end
38_Assignment

Software

• I used Houdini 19.5 Indie (you should be fine with almost any version, though)
• You can follow along with free apprentice version (https://www.sidefx.com/download/)

Requisites

• You are familiarized with 3D basics (not mandatory but highly recommended)
• You already covered the basics of Houdini on your own (software navigation)
• You know what is a vector (or wanna know)
• You wanna become beyond average node-based Houdini TechArtist (some code language knowledge recommended at any level)
• This is not FX, shading, rendering/visualization, batch processing, PDG, game integration.

You will learn:

• Creating production-ready HDA tool from scratch
• Procedural modeling through VEX (Sci-Fi oriented)
• Bending tech to your will (Art goes first)
• Applied Houdini from real-world production point of view
• Planning ahead
• Reserved Atributes
• Most common functions
• Intrinsics
• Attribute casting
• Geometry Cleanup tricks
• Effortless computation optimizing
• Recursive looping
• Avoiding looping
• Referencing data
• Functional UI design E+E (effective+efficient)
• Iteration process
• Code reusing
• Coding good practices
• Prototype by hand first
• Priciple of layering
• Intro to data structures (arrays)
• Visualizing data
• Basic vector algebra
• Focus on bring value
• Trading off complexity VS results
• Debug and troubleshooting
• Orienting instanced geometry
• Embracing misperfection
• Realistic expectations
• Being honest to yourself

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