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TOTAL DURATION: 1h 8m 23s

In this lesson, you will take your first steps into Houdini as you model a coffee cup then use dynamics to simulate a collection of gumballs falling into it. You will apply textures and materials, add lights and a camera then render out the finished sequence. By touching all aspects of this shot, you will begin learning how to navigate your way through Houdini and its node-based workflow.

This lesson includes a step-by-step PDF which you can use to follow along the lesson supported by video tutorials.

CREATED BY

rmagee
ROBERT MAGEE

Robert Magee is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at SideFX who has been working with Houdini for 20 years. He has created lots of learning material and demos designed to help artists understand how going procedural with Houdini can benefit their work.

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COMMENTS

  • chrisabruce 2 weeks ago  | 

    This is a great set of beginner lessons. I like how it covers all the newer features like solaris and copernicus.

  • knockflakes 2 weeks ago  | 

    Thänx a lot for this great tutorial! So many useful tipps!

  • PerpetualZest 1 week, 6 days ago  | 

    Just leaving this comment in case someone has a similar issue. I had an issue with shadows not displaying in the viewer in Solaris (Video #4). I realized that I only had "Full Lighting" enabled, but I needed the next button down, "Full Lighting with Shadows" to be enabled instead. They are small buttons on the right side of the viewer that look like a lightbulb with a "+" sign inside.

    Anyway, thanks for posting this series, I'm enjoying learning from it so far.

  • LuzidVision 1 week, 5 days ago  | 

    Just as PerpetualZest said, to have the cup cast shadows on the ground in the viewport render, go to
    Scene view -> Display Options -> Lights Tab -> Lighting Quality: Full Lighting with Shadows

  • piumal89001 1 week, 4 days ago  | 

    perfect tutorial.really good for beginners.❤️

  • ertemi 1 week, 3 days ago  | 

    This is truly the best tutorial I have seen so far.
    You can see the effort put into explaining every detail.
    Thanks to Mr. ROBERT MAGEE

  • ashimialz163 1 week, 2 days ago  | 

    very useful for beginner like me，thx a lot

  • markeloff 5 days, 7 hours ago  | 

    does anyone know how to solve this error from video 6?

    "Unable to find layer file: 20.5.278/projects/overview_lesson/usd/gumball_sim.usd"

    "Targeted missing explicit primitive: /gumball_sim"

    the error is at the reference node

  • johntdp 2 days, 3 hours ago  | 

    I got stuck in Chapter 3. Can’t get Copy to Points to work. I have nothing selected, click Copy to Points. I get the prompt to select the first object. I click on the node for the sphere and hit enter, but then do not get the second prompt to select the box. Instead it just opens up the sphere node. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

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