Houdini MOC

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TOC

• General
• Attributes
• Rigging
• Karma
• Simulations
  • RBD
  • Vellum
  • Pyro and Smoke
  • Fluid
  • Crowds
• TOPs
• LOPs
• CHOPs
• Grooming
• Coding
  • HScript
  • Textport
  • VEX
  • Python
  • Parameter Interface
• Export
  • Rename data for C4D export
  • Convert Non-commercial to Indie
• Tools
  • General
  • Camera tools
  • AI tools
• Troubleshooting
  • Crashes on the older AMD CPUs

General

• Houdini Sink
• Houdini configuration
• Houdini hotkeys

Attributes

• Houdini attributes

Rigging

• Houdini KineFX Sink
• Houdini APEX Sink

Karma

• Karma renderer
• Karma Sink

Simulations

DOPs and not

• The best resource for FX stuff taught by Stephen Knipping who is the head of destruction fx at ILM. really good at explaining stuff. paid tutorials but the first episodes in each of his series are free.

RBD

Houdini RBD Sink

Vellum

• Vellum Cloth | Jeff Lait | H17 Masterclass lots of cool tips
• To fix intersected collisions create disableexternal point int attribute with value of 2

Pyro and Smoke

• Some Notes for Smoke and PYRO
• Houdini Micro Solvers
• Microsolvers and DOPs Data | Fuat Yüksel | SIGGRAPH HIVE 2023
• Anatomy of Houdini smoke solver

Fluid

• Jason Harmon aka WhatIFound does great intermediate to advanced liquid/fluid tutorials

Crowds

Houdini Crowds Sink

TOPs

• HoudiniTops
• Houdini native Flipbook rendering as workitems via TOP network

LOPs

Houdini Solaris

• Houdini Solaris Sink

CHOPs

• Houdini CHOPs Sink

Grooming

• Speed Grooming in Houdini 19 from a Guy That Doesn't Groom
• Geometry to hair

Coding

HScript

Houdini HScript Sink

Textport

//Show largest node in memory
sopcache -v -L

// Show disk usage
cpio -ivt < YOURFILENAME.hip

VEX

• Houdini VEX Sink

Python

• Houdini Python Sink

Parameter Interface

• Driving Parameters using Dictionary Attributes
  Using attribfromparm node to obtain node parameters, changing them and passing to another node using spare input

• Custom Attribute Menu with Multiparm Blocks and VEX

Export

Rename data for C4D export

Convert Non-commercial to Indie

https://www.orbolt.com/upgrade-houdini-files

Tools

General

• OD Tools Sink
• MOPs MOPs GitHub
• Houdini Flipbook render out using FFMpeg
• Houdini Snip
• Scientific Plugins and Toolsets for Houdini
• AELib
• AL-TOOLS / Ultimate Terrain Workflow Video
• HPaint
• Infection Solver
• Export camera, objects and points from Houdini to After Effects HDALC
• Houdini_2_AE orbolt

Camera tools

• Houdini Camera Target HDA
• Camera Shakify

AI tools

• MLOPS
• Stable Houdini

Troubleshooting

Crashes on the older AMD CPUs

2nd - 3rd gen Ryzen/Threadripper CPUs, probably some others as well

Source