[Digital Tutors] Introduction To Fluids In Houdini

26th
DEC

Learn a flexible workflow to particle-based and volume-based simulations in Houdini and production-applicable techniques to creating realistic fire, smoke, and liquid effects. Contains over 3.5 hours of self-paced training with several practical projects. Ideal for new and intermediate artists.

Popular highlights include:
Particle-based Fluids
Volume-based Fluids
Ripple Solver
Viscosity
Fire, Smoke and Liquid simulations
Smoke Solver
Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics
Microsolvers
Visualizing Simulation Attributes
Rendering Fluids in Mantra
Source, Sink and Pump
Physical Properties
Rigid Body Dynamics
Gas Constant
Fuel and Temperature
Vorticles
Caching
Forces and Expressions
Creating and Painting Attributes

Lesson Outline:
1. Introduction and Project Overview 1:44
2. Particle Fluids: creation and visualization 8:55
3. Particle Fluids: setting up collisions 9:07
4. Particle Fluids: caching and rendering 6:12
5. Emitting particle fluids 6:54
6. Sinking particle fluids 5:44
7. Emitting and sinking from objects 5:06
8. Pouring liquid into a container 8:30
9. Physical properties 4:46
10. Particle fluid surfacing 10:28
11. Beginning to mix liquid colors with microsolvers 6:25
12. Mixing liquid colors with microsolvers 8:50
13. Final simulation tweaks 7:44
14. Using the Sculpted Particle Fluid tool 6:20
15. Working with Liquid Containers 8:01
16. Liquid emission and interaction 6:10
17. Continuing liquid emission and interaction 9:38
18. Initial states and liquid caching 7:03
19. Rendering liquids 4:26
20. Smoke and fire solvers 6:08
21. Starting the smoke stack simulation 6:13
22. Driving simulations with forces 7:30
23. Finishing the smoke stack 8:03
24. Building a cigarette fume with 2d containers 5:45
25. Adding vorticles 7:55
26. Shading and rendering the fume effect 6:53
27. Using the Burst into flame tool 6:35
28. Ripple solver setup 6:05
29. Simulating ripple-inducing raindrops 9:49
30. Per-point ripple solver attributes 6:44