What's New in Houdini 18

This quickstart tutorial shows how you can use the Circle from Edges SOP to automate and generate convenient circular geometry - in this case, a panel of rivets. Circle from Edges is different than the Make Circle option in the Edit SOP, as it allows you to make multiple geometry selections from a Group field and convert them all to circles, with specified radii.

This quickstart tutorial shows how you can access and use Local Transform, as well as how to set hotkeys to your most commonly used tools. Using Local Transforms will allow you to make correct geometry edits, which respect connected geometry selections and gives you the ability to properly scale, translate and rotate in their respective spaces.

This quickstart tutorial shows how you can use the Bend SOP, to bend, twist, taper, adjust length scale, and create shapes which would otherwise require significant effort when manually modeled as a starting initial position. This video will show how you can bend a plain tube geometry into a more interesting shape, with little effort.

Houdini 18 introduces some significant new features to Vellum that have been developed with an artist-friendly ease of use in mind. In this tutorial, I will be guiding you through an example for creating a rolling dough using Vellum Soft Bodies and its Plasticity feature.

In this tutorial, I will guide you through some good workflow practices when working with Vellum Cloth in Houdini 18. I will begin by talking about the initial set-up and discuss which geometry types are favoured in terms of a cloth simulation, followed by best practices for preparing incoming intersecting collision geometry, and, finally, end with a troubleshooting example and some useful tips and tricks for post-sim fixes.

A tutorial for FEM compression simulation, together with general FEM tips and tricks, help guiding beginners for their first FEM simulation.