Houdini Insight

SideFX hosts Houdini Office Hours on a biweekly basis. These are regular sessions where you can ask questions or get tips and tricks about Houdini.

Welcome to the Procedural game environment class with Unreal Engine 4 and Houdini! This course is packed with expert insight, technical skills, secret tips, and the black arts of procedural environment design that will help you level up your environment design and art skills to a whole new level! All Packed into a compact 14 hours of content that would be impossible to get anywhere else.

Procedural content creation in game development helps speed up production. This course will teach you the fundamentals of using the Houdini Engine in Unity 2017 to procedurally generate models, collision meshes, material assignments, UVs, and more.

With the release of Houdini 13.0 SideFX has extended their Ocean FX tools that were introduced in H12.5. Easy to use shelf-tools allow one click setups of complicated networks. Though as prof Nick Nimble found there are still quite a few hurdles you have to take if you want to put a boat on an ocean.

When Alex Stone was five years old, his father bought him a magic kit—a gift that would spark a lifelong love. Years later, while living in New York City, he discovered a vibrant underground magic scene exploding with creativity and innovation and populated by a fascinating cast of characters: from his gruff mentor, who holds court in the back of a rundown pizza shop, to one of the world's greatest card cheats, who also happens to be blind. Captivated, he plunged headlong into this mysterious world, eventually competing at the Magic Olympics and training with great magicians around the globe to perfect his craft.

Fluids are often thought of as just being a surface that is rendered and effects that are applied to this surface, and often these can be treated as independent effects however in this video, I focus on exposing that what makes Houdini unique, that being the ability to create complex scalable particle simulations like splashes and bubbles, where these effects rely on the fluid simulation to introduce complex customizable behavior.