Image Planes Part 4 (Object IDs)

Didn't think the image plane series was complete enough so I tacked on this little diddy.  I covers how to get object (or primitive) ids using image planes and what you can do with them in the compositor using the lumakey COP.  The compositor part I learned from SYmek, who I feel is an integral part of the Houdini community ... Read More...

Image Planes Part 3 (Light Export)

I'm fairly pleased with this video only because I learned a lot on my way to get this worked out. Well, I learned a lot of mistakes one could make with VEX like what you shouldn't put in illuminance loops. I felt obliged to do this video since in the very first video I mentioned that I would talk about ... Read More...

Image Planes Part 2 (An Occlusion Plane)

Okay, so I went a bit off the track on this one. It's loosely an image plane video and more of a "how to do an occlusion pass inside a shader then put it in a plane" video. So I'm not sure if I should keep it under the "image plane" heading or create some new one. ... Read More...

Image Planes Part 1

I'm loving Houdini shaders and image planes are just icing on the cake. I thought I would run through the basics first then in a later video(s) get into extracting specific data into planes then cover light exports in image planes. So you can find part 1 here! Read More...

Using dophassubdata To Change Colors Dynamically

It's a fairly straight forward but I thought it needed to be put in video form. Dynamics and expressions in Houdini go hand in hand and this is an example of that. You can find the video tutorial on how to do this here and the result below: Read More...

Emitting Particles Using A Bounding Object And Its Normals

There was a discussion on the Houdini forums that I took part in that I thought was worth not just one video tutorial but a three part series. I think it's a really simple task but shows oh so much and is easily applicable to more complex work. What it covers is taking an object that will emit particles and ... Read More...