Gumroad – Particle in Houdini (Russian) By bereg

Course table of contents:

• Introduction, analysis of the settings of the DOP Network node.
• Attributes in the particle system: id, age, life, v, force, targetv, airresist, mass.
• Particle creation. Detailed analysis of the POP Source and POP Replicate nodes.
• Death of particles. Working with the dead attribute.
• Working with vexpression. Examples of expressions for particle control.
• Streams. A detailed breakdown of the particle streaming concept.
• Rotation of particles. Parsing the attributes of angular movement: orient, w, torque, targetw, spinresist.
• Collisions. How particles can interact with other objects.
• POP VOP. Particle system control using visual programming.
• Trails. Three ways to draw particle trajectories.
• Overview of POP nodes. Let’s analyze the purpose of all the nodes for controlling particles.
• Advect by volumes. Parsing the POP Advect by volumes.
• POP Steer nodes. An overview of crowd control nodes and how they can be used in a conventional particle system.
• Particles in RBD simulations. How particles interact with each other and other objects.
• Render in Redshift3d. Understanding the nuances of particle rendering, including tricks for rendering the correct motion blur.
• Practice: a scene of a UFO chase. We will consider a complex scene, in which the complex logic of behavior of objects in the scene will be programmed using streams.
• Practice: dancing particles. A trending effect where particles float on the surface of an animated object.
• Practice: custom Curve Force. A useful asset for following particles along a fine-tuned curve.
• Practice: procedural fern. With the help of streams, we will grow a complex object with many branches.
• Practice: magic smoke. A trail of particles that remains behind the animated geometry.
• To complete the course, you need to know the Houdini interface, the basics of working in the SOP context and the vex builder (VOP).