Houdini 20.5 Compositing

Generate fills

Old network

As of Houdini 20.5, use Copernicus nodes instead of Compositing nodes. Though both networks still exist, the Compositing network is now designated as COP Network - Old. The Compositing network and its nodes will be deprecated and then removed in a future Houdini release.

To do this… Use this operator
Constant color

Color COP
Linear and radial color gradients

Ramp COP

  • The color ramp can blend between any number of colors, and you can control blending speed between colors.

  • The ramp can wrap around to create a continuous loop.

  • You can cycle the colors in the ramp.
4-corner ramp

Corner Ramp COP

  • You control the color and strength at each corner.

  • You can add additional points and move corners to produce a more general contour image.
Noise

See how to add noise.

Quickly generate imagery with a lot of colors (useful for experimenting with or testing color-related networks)

Colorwheel COP

Compositing

Basics

Layers

Camera effects

Advanced

Guru level