This tutorial will introduce you to the basics of Houdini’s Rigid Body Material Based Destruction workflow using the RBD Bullet Solver SOP. It assumes at least a beginner’s understanding of Houdini. Topics covered will be:

  • Preparing geo for destruction
  • Using the RBD Material Fracture SOPs
  • Bringing in a custom hitting object
  • Organizing your network for best workflow
  • Tweaking constraint and material properties
  • Creating intra-material constraints
  • Using multiple constraint types
  • Configuring glass for rendering
  • Debugging and tweaking simulations

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CREATED BY

mrCatfish
SEAN LEWKIW

Sean has over 25 years of VFX production experience as a VFX Supervisor, DFX Supervisor, CG Supervisor and Houdini FX artist. His credits include Lord of the Rings, Superman Returns, Golden Compass, Watchmen, Mazerunner, and many many more, and stints at Weta, DNEG, Method, Framestore and others. See his IMDB profile at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507909/ Sean has extensive teaching experience as Lead FX Instructor for four years. He focusses on the fundamentals so that you understand what you are doing and why you are doing it, so that you can take what you learned and actually use it to create new content. Sean has also worked with Sidefx Software creating documentation for Houdini itself. He has also been using Houdini since its inception!

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COMMENTS

  • hound2003 4 years, 7 months ago  | 

    Sry I have a problem downloading the file.
    When i try to use a help browser i see an empty screen with a QE logo and only button is OK/
    When i try to lunch i see a (",") and houdini console

    File "C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.287/houdini/python2.7libs\houdinihelp\api.py", line 737, in load_example
    raise ValueError("Can't find %r on the Houdini path" % pathpath)
    ValueError: Can't find 'help/examples/nodes/sop/rbdbulletsolver/MaterialFractureTutorial.hda' on the Houdini path

  • mrCatfish 4 years, 7 months ago  | 

    This is Houdini 18.0.287? I suspect that the example HDA is not in your install. If you can, please try the latest daily build.

  • urmibeati 4 years, 7 months ago  | 

    Hi, I am having the same issue as well, I am in 18.0.391 build and am unable to access the files

  • mrCatfish 4 years, 7 months ago  | 

    Can you try the latest production build? 18.0.416?

  • urmibeati 4 years, 7 months ago  | 

    I did, and it worked. Thank You.

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