This is a video tutorial on how to create your own lighting model using an illuminance loop in a vop network in Houdini.

Note that this only works for standard Mantra renders, not for PBR. We create a velvet lighting model, including shadows using a illuminance loop.


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Here's a look at the basics of smoke simulations. It is worth looking at the video series on volumes before doing the smoke tutorials.

This first part looks at setting up a simulation, the fields involved, how to visualise them. It also looks at temperature and bouyancy as well as vortex confinement.


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In this amazing Houdini tutorial, we will walk you through how to completely pulverize characters and objects using Side Effect’s Houdini 11. Today’s section deals with setting up the basic node-network whilst the next part will look at how to finish the effect and art-direct the dynamics to ensure we get the look we want. Look no further if you want to see just how creative Houdini allows you to be…


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