Welcome to Applied Houdini Volumes II – Simulation! In this lesson we’re going to talk about how to make realistic, production quality smoke while creating the result you see here. By exploring many of the microsolvers that make up the main Pyro solver, we will gain an in-depth knowledge of how to precisely control the behavior of our simulation.

Particles III - Advanced Particles and Lightning is a two (or three? Or five!) in one lesson covering a wide variety of visual and technical topics surrounding the creation of lightning style energy bolts and photorealistic sparks! We will cover how to accurately portray the sub-frame curved motion blur necessary to make sparks look their best using advanced geometry manipulation skills, as well as build up an algorithm for art directing energy

In Rigids V, we’ll create a series of blasts whose shape and position are based off of a dynamic laser gunfire simulation! We’ll design the shape of the explosion at each laser bolt impact by controlling the sources of the new rigid body debris, particles, streamers, and smoke.

MP4 1920x1080 | 4h 38m | ENG | Project Files | 1.86 GB

MP4 1920x1016 | 2h 50m | ENG | 1.3 GB

MP4 1280x720 | 2h 11m | ENG | Project Files | 3.5 GB

MP4 1680x1008 | 2h 28m | ENG | 5.32 GB