Texture building in Houdini

Content Details – 8 Video Chapters (with Audio)

Duration – 2 hrs 16 mins

lesson plan

• Introduction – A simple introduction to Surface model and comparison to the vray material
• Bitmap – Understanding the basic color map in Houdini and recreating the 3dsmax bitmap functions in Houdini
• 2d Maps – Looking at a variety of 2d texture patterns available in Houdini
• 3d Maps – Using the various noise maps in Houdini which include, Turbulent noise, Worley and Voronoi cells and unified noise.
• 3d maps (contd.) – Continuing from the previous lesson we look at a few more noise maps
• Glowing Cracks – Using the unified noise map to create a complex material and then making it emit light.
• Parquet Flooring – Learning how to mix and composite and color correct textures via a small project of creating a parquet flooring material.
• Marble Flooring – Creating a complex marble floor pattern using a variety of inbuilt maps to create a complex mask to mix textures together.

Content Details -8 Video Chapters (with Audio)

Duration – 2 hrs 21 mins

lesson plan

• UV distort – In this lesson we shall see show the user can modify UV maps to create interesting texture patterns.
• UV distort ( contd.) – We continue looking at different methods to distort UV maps and even take a look at how paint a custom UV map in Photoshop.
• For Loop- Leaning how to use the For Loop node to creat complex repeating and random patterns.
• Procedural Bricks – We use all the various things that we have learnt so far to create a fully procedural brick shader
• Procedural Marble tiles – We will complete another small project by creating a fully procedural marble shader
  Point Color and Ramps – Learning how to bring point color and point attributes into a shader and also how the ramp parameter works in Houdini.
• Switch node and other stuff – Using the switch node to apply multiple textures or shaders to objects and also looking a few minor examples.
• Custom Shader – In the final lesson we will build a custom physically based shader using the physically based diffuse, specular and other nodes available in Houdini.