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Houly Challenge! Week 2

Hi Everyone! 

We are well into week 3 now so here are the unfiltered hipfiles from week 2. Some of them are more of a mess than others but hopefully you find it useful :)

Think some of them where a bit off brief for the week,  probably should have kept the slime mould for we...

Houly Challenge! Week 1

Hi Everyone! This is an announcement and file share rolled into one. If you missed it on the discord I am giving the Houdini houly challenge a go. That's on top of the day job so it's keeping me very busy.

I don't think I will have much time for making tutorials this month, so to compensate...

Tutorial: Chocolate Dancing Part 4 - Lighting

Hi Everyone,

I the final section I wrap things up by going through my lighting setup a little shading and little animation and VEX camera space constraint .I show you how I dealt with setting up lighting for a camera that rotates 360.

Enjoy

Z

HIPshare - FLIP Geometry Erode

Hey everyone!

This one if for everyone who isn't on the discord server. It's a sample setup to show how you can create a geometry erosion effect interacting with FLIP.

There are other ways to do this sort of thing but the benefit of this is that if the other object has uv's it will st...

Chocolate Dancing Part 3 HIP file

And here is the hip file.

Enjoy!

Z

Tutorial: Chocolate Dancing Part 3 - VDB Meshing

Hi everyone,

In part 3 we use VDB nodes to mesh our fluid and combine the animated dancer and platform to create one single geometry to render. 

Enjoy!

Z

Chocolate Dancing Part 2 HIP file

Here is the hip file

Tutorial: Chocolate Dancing Part 2 - FLIP Simulation

Hi Everyone!

Part 2 of this tutorial covers converting our particle trail emitter from part on into a a emission source for FLIP and setting up the FLIP simulation.

Enjoy!
Z

Chocolate Dancing Part 1 HIP file

And here is the hip file! 

Tutorial: Chocolate Dancing Part 1 - Emission Control

 Hi everyone!

Part 1 of this tutorial covers setting up the emission control for the simulation. The part can apply to all sorts of simulations not just FLIP.

Enjoy!
Z

Chocolate Dancing

Hi everyone!

Here is a little promo clip for my latest tutorial. 

The tutorial covers setting up a controlled emission, getting it working with FLIP, and meshing the simulation. With a bonus lighting setup for tier wave patrons and up. 

I'll post part one after this an...

Tutorial: How to Retime FLIP Simulations

Hi everyone, in this tutorial I demonstrate how to use the Retime node to time ramp a FLIP simulation in a smooth fashion with no jitter or stepping in Houdini 18.

Enjoy!

FLIP - Chocolate Pour HIP files

Here are the HIP files.

Enjoy!

Z

Tutorial: FLIP - Chocolate Pour

Hi everyone!

Here is a new video tutorial. Not that long since my last one but I am trying to make up for being a bit quiet the last few months.

In this tutorial I demonstrate how you can create coiling viscous liquid effects using the FLIP solver in Houdini. 

Enjoy!

...

Explained - FLIP Surface Tension

Hi everyone!

Here is my latest tutorial, it's surface tension again but this time a am trying something different and just explaining what it is and how it works in Houdini.

I will still keep one making my regular more specific tutorials as well and if I get good feedback on this I wi...

VEX: Spinning Particles

Hi Everyone!

Here is a vex quick tip from the blog. It's about rotating points using quaternions.

Enjoy!

Z

Shiny New Discord Up and Running!

Hi Everyone!

I created a Discord server called  Zybs FX Chat! (more create name suggestions welcome)

 I created it so that its easier for patrons to communicate with me. The Patreon page isn't always great for that. Its patron only and open to all tiers. 

I don't ...

Tutorial: Quick FEM Plant Sim

Hi All, 

In this tutorial I demonstrate a setup for creating plant simulations using the Finite Element solver but setting the plant up as a solid object. The good thing about this setup is that it works with minimal input requirements from the input geometry. 

Enjoy!

Groups To Attribute With VEX

Hi All,  

I just posted this over on my website for those time you get geometry from Maya with millions of...

New Year Update

Hi All, happy new year!

I know I have been a little quiet over the festive period but I have lots of big plans for more tutorials this year. 

In total last year I recorded 18 video which I think is not bad for my first year doing it. 

I am currently working out a plan ...

Pyro Meshed HIP files

And here are the hip files. The tutorial end and the simulation file from the original Vimeo video.

Enjoy!

Z

Tutorial: Pyro Meshed

Hey all,

As promised here is the tutorial showing how I made the Thank Your patron video clip. 

It's a combination of pyro simulation and VDB manipulation to mesh the simulations as geometry.

Hipfiles will follow later today.

Enjoy!

Thank You Patrons!

Hi All, in case you missed my twitter post which you probably did because I am not on twitter much and don't expect many people to follow me there. I posted a little thanks you to all of you on there as part of #ThankYourPatrons day. 

Here is the post:  2019-11-20 15:09:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Quick Tip: Rounding To Decimals

Hi All, here is a new quick tip from over on my blog and the hip file is attached as well. 

https://zybrand.xyz/quick-tip-rounding-to-decimals 

Enjoy,

Z

Tutorial: FLIP RBD interaction

Hi All,

Here is a quick tutorial demonstrating how to setup a mutual interaction between  a FLIP and rigid body simulation to create effects like objects floating in water. 

Enjoy

Z

Rest Pos to Texture HIP Files

Here are the hip files. I am doing this one differently because I don't think I do enough for my higher tier patrons so this hip file has the basic setup. Everything up to the bonus stuff I show after the high res sim.

IT will not apply all the time but I will do it every now and then and a...

Tutorial: FLIP - Rest Pos to Texture

Hi All, since making the Melting Textured Objects tutorial following it up with a tutorial about texturing a simulated mesh seemed unavoidable.

In this tutorial I demonstrate a method for texturing the simulated mesh using a rest position attribute and transferring maps to poin...

Tutorial: Melting Textured Objects

Hi All, 

In this tutorial I demonstrate a simple trick of using flip as a deformer rather that meshing the simulation in order to preserve textures on objects. 

It is useful is specific cases where the fluid effect is very viscous and hold on single shape through out the sim...

Tutorial: Beer Simulation Part 3 - Applied Foam

Hi All,

Here is part 3 of the beer tutorial. In this section I go of the setup for applying the foam setup to the beer glass shot. 

Disclaimer - The setup still as some bugs that need ironing out but I still think its worth a look. 

Beer Simulation Part 3 HIP files

Hi All,

And here are the hip is the hip files. Since it't only a walk through I am only including a single file.

Enjoy!

Z