What I Found

What I Found

Tips and tricks, mostly 3d, a lot of Houdini, some C4D and anything else I think may be interesting or useful.

I'm Jason Harmon, I've been working professionally in broadcast / post production for 16 years. I started out editing, then moved into motion graphics, some minor vfx, and along the way kept gravitating toward 3d. 3d has been my primary work for the past 10 years or so, most of that time I've spent working in C4D. I'm now working mostly in Houdini but still use C4D, After Effects, and tons of other software as well.
Thanks for watching!

BustDuster 1.3 update

BustDuster 1.3 update

RIP Sneak Peek

RIP Sneak Peek

BoomBox Update

BoomBox Update

BoomBox HDA Quick Start

BoomBox HDA Quick Start

CHOP talk Keyboard Rig

CHOP talk Keyboard Rig

Houdini Stylized Dissolve

Houdini Stylized Dissolve

Houdini FLIP Paint Burst

Houdini FLIP Paint Burst

Houdini Variable Viscosity

Houdini Variable Viscosity

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  • @jlukas5539
    @jlukas55398 күн бұрын

    lifesaver, big thanks !! :)

  • @karimoh3154
    @karimoh3154Ай бұрын

    Unfortunately I wasn really able to understand what your solution was in the end... it would have been nice to give a bit more insight in what you actually changed on the vob ( hole filler). thanks for sharing though

  • @karimoh3154
    @karimoh3154Ай бұрын

    I am having issues as well with retiming my flip sim. but here the guys seems to have worked it out wihtout any workarounds: kzread.info/dash/bejne/h5mZp7Whadi5k8o.html

  • @hanshubert6675
    @hanshubert6675Ай бұрын

    thank you for doing this! Still i got to say that this one was kind of frustrating to follow for a beginner. just by rebuilding what is on screen i could not get it to work after that "now draw the rest of the owl moment" at 13:30. i have no clue how the particle bed upstream of the dop was set up or what happens after the dop.

  • @TheMiszla
    @TheMiszlaАй бұрын

    Wait, does this mean that, theoretically, you could make a game in Houdini?

  • @pondoitsame927
    @pondoitsame9273 ай бұрын

    this is my kingdom ome

  • @maarten176
    @maarten1763 ай бұрын

    Goooood stuff! thanks

  • @Chrisonander
    @Chrisonander3 ай бұрын

    Hey there, thanks for exploring chops with so much clarity. No matter what I do I can't get houdini to enter intercept mode. Any further ideas? There isn't much info online about it

  • @juancarlosgzrz
    @juancarlosgzrz4 ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @juancarlosgzrz
    @juancarlosgzrz4 ай бұрын

    Where's the tutorial? thanks

  • @antoniopepe
    @antoniopepe4 ай бұрын

    Great Tut. PS: for the grain collision isnt necessary disabling openCL, but disabling "assume uniform radius" 🙌

  • @Salvador-xy5es
    @Salvador-xy5es5 ай бұрын

    very informative and lovely tutorial, Thank you

  • @michaeldavids2407
    @michaeldavids24075 ай бұрын

    Why make a tutorial if you are going to skip important steps? It was really easy to follow and helpful up until that point :(

  • @vex-studio
    @vex-studio5 ай бұрын

    why the vex code is not working in any way!!!?? like I tried to write in a deferent way but the normals are not inverted!!! even the velocity value are - I checked it in sopread shit but the notmals still not inverted

  • @TLS_PROJECT
    @TLS_PROJECT6 ай бұрын

    Hello. I really like your videos! It would be great if there were a brief overview of small changes regarding the files used. For example, I integrated this into my scene, but my scene size is "n" times larger. So, I adjusted this "parameter" to a value of "n."

  • @doziefranklin2490
    @doziefranklin24906 ай бұрын

    Damn I hope you do the meshing part. This was really good

  • @embodie_breaks7089
    @embodie_breaks70897 ай бұрын

    Thank you. I was messing with the reseed and retime a little while back and it was doing some of that pump-like movement. I knew it was a bug but I just didn't know how to solve it at the time but now that you mention it was a bug it makes sense.

  • @poly_xp
    @poly_xp7 ай бұрын

    Awesome tutorial and explanation. Gives me allot of ideas to try out. Thanks!

  • @emimeemio
    @emimeemio7 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much!! This great addon!🙏

  • @philippwelsing9108
    @philippwelsing91088 ай бұрын

    Shift-A-middle mouse - FINALLY. Thank you. Great as always.

  • @philippwelsing9108
    @philippwelsing910810 ай бұрын

    Thanks so much for this!! Incredibly helpful.

  • @guymicciche144
    @guymicciche14410 ай бұрын

    Maya needs this

  • @guymicciche144
    @guymicciche14410 ай бұрын

    Nevermind, I think because I clicked "Reset All Sims" it started working. Thanks!

  • @guymicciche144
    @guymicciche14410 ай бұрын

    Thanks for this, but for some reason, the bustduster chunks are not colliding with the boombox fractured geo. Is there anything/settings I should check for?

  • @guymicciche144
    @guymicciche14410 ай бұрын

    HI i bought these otls, but I have a question. When the explosion happens, the bustduster chunks don't collide with the fractured geo. They go through it and hit the ground plane. How can I have the bustduster chunks hit the geo which is ontop of the floor, instead of falling through the geo and hitting the ground plane? Thank you!

  • @imakegreateggs
    @imakegreateggs10 ай бұрын

    I find very dificult to get any information about very thin viscous liquids, like paint. At the moment the only breakthrough I had is that I need a lot of particles. Yet that comes with drawbacks where anything else needs readjusting the values for viscosity, surface tension. In any case, awesome tutorial and well explained.

  • @connectedhacker
    @connectedhacker11 ай бұрын

    absolute beginner here but I tried that with the SOP FLIP and can't get it to use age to change viscosity. Tried an attribute VOP but no luck. Can anyone help here?

  • @WhatIFound
    @WhatIFound10 ай бұрын

    I made this quite a while before SideFX had the sop level flip tools available. In dops when I use the popvop to change the viscosity based on age, because this happens within the dop context it applies these lookups based on the previous frames values. I’m n short the vop acts as a solver, operates on the previous frames values. This doesn’t happen in sops by default.

  • @vladimirkachalov9046
    @vladimirkachalov90468 ай бұрын

    Try to use source_first_imput instead of volumesource1, for me it works only this way

  • @MattFrodsham
    @MattFrodsham2 ай бұрын

    @@WhatIFound This explains a lot (the vop acting like a solver), thanks for putting that in writing

  • @aki_gong6271
    @aki_gong627111 ай бұрын

    Wow! This is some mindBlowing concepts. I am super interested in Houdini Chops, and in how it can be compared to TD. I'm interested in developing some systems linking audio and visuals and you just gave some amazing ideas. This series is amazing. Thanks a bunch!

  • @LOGOTIPERO
    @LOGOTIPERO11 ай бұрын

    If you ´re gonna teach something, start from scratch.

  • @massimobaita7178
    @massimobaita717811 ай бұрын

    Thank You very much, Jason!

  • @octoghost3470
    @octoghost3470 Жыл бұрын

    have you done a tutorial on how you did the variable viscosity on the emitter itself like in the 2nd example in this video? just wondering. your effects are really awesome!!

  • @massimobaita7178
    @massimobaita7178 Жыл бұрын

    Great!

  • @RichardRiegel
    @RichardRiegel Жыл бұрын

    I want one :)

  • @user-hw5dn4hu3k
    @user-hw5dn4hu3k Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing! Can't wait to integrate this in!

  • @kevin-Han-
    @kevin-Han- Жыл бұрын

    I like your tutorial on individual nodes, which is very practical and provides a comprehensive understanding of Houdini's core. You are amazing.

  • @WhatIFound
    @WhatIFound Жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @framesbykg
    @framesbykg Жыл бұрын

    RIP is a genius name. Looks awesome, and super helpful!

  • @cwhiticar1
    @cwhiticar1 Жыл бұрын

    I love this tutorial and the way you explain things!

  • @Lochie2007
    @Lochie2007 Жыл бұрын

    Just wanted to say thank you for your tutorial! I was able to create a stylised chocolate splash with your setup! Amazing!

  • @eliasdiaz5739
    @eliasdiaz5739 Жыл бұрын

    incredibly helpful. Thanks for sharing.

  • @user-bz7my5ri1d
    @user-bz7my5ri1d Жыл бұрын

    Quick question, if I had a vellum cloth fracture sim. Lets say a ball bursting through a rug. Can I use the bustduster to give me all my secondary dust and particle sims? Great tools btw!!

  • @WhatIFound
    @WhatIFound Жыл бұрын

    It won’t. The inputs must be either BoomBox or the RBD Bullet solver. Internally a lot of information is pulled from those sources and of BustDuster doesn’t find one or the other of those as the input source it won’t work.

  • @kevin2028
    @kevin2028 Жыл бұрын

    What am I missing. When I set this up boom box and Bust Duster, my main geo vanishes and I see the explosion from the bust duster only. I have to use a merge node and take the first output 1 from the boom box and the output 1 from the bust duster together to see them both? In this video you are seeing both your geo and your bust duster particles without a merge node.

  • @WhatIFound
    @WhatIFound Жыл бұрын

    In the videos I’m setting the template flag to BoomBox. BustDuster’s output viz only shows the elements you select in the button strip. I’ll often do as you do and merge as well. But templating the fracture uses a little less overhead in the viewport vs a merge.

  • @kevin2028
    @kevin2028 Жыл бұрын

    @@WhatIFound Hi Jason I am having an issue with bust duster. When I export an alembic, to C4D from Houdini I get the particles from BD in an already exploded state, like a freeze frame. When I hit play on the animation in C4D the BD particles then explode out of the object and then match the position and rotation of the freeze frame and then it all starts to move together. I think this is a bug. I have tried getting the chunks and the trails all separately but it's always the same result.

  • @WhatIFound
    @WhatIFound Жыл бұрын

    @@kevin2028 Hey. I just exported the chunks as an abc and brought them into C4D without issue. I'd suggest exporting each element separately by using their discrete output if you're not already doing so. I've connected a rop alembic out to the second output of bust duster (chunk output), used the default settings and it's worked as expected. I'm using C4D r21. I can't vouch for newer versions, I stopped using C4D years ago.

  • @emimeemio
    @emimeemio Жыл бұрын

    Super! ^^ Gonna buy this ^^

  • @WhatIFound
    @WhatIFound Жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much, hope you enjoy working with it.

  • @shadow1346
    @shadow1346 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing. Buying this right now!

  • @massimobaita7178
    @massimobaita7178 Жыл бұрын

    Great! Thank You very much, Jason!

  • @Emeteriowallace
    @Emeteriowallace Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic work!

  • @chillsoft
    @chillsoft Жыл бұрын

    Looks cool, but here is no rolling/spin/rotation on the instanced chunks right? Thanks for making these, I think I'll get the bundle, seems to save time! Are the HDAs blackboxes or are they open for a peek inside?

  • @WhatIFound
    @WhatIFound Жыл бұрын

    There is a roll on the chunks. In the chunk tab / forces there's a spin speed control. It may be hard to notice at times, but it is there. Most visible on the pieces as they're coming to a stop on ground planes. It's from a pop spin, with a little modification.

  • @WhatIFound
    @WhatIFound Жыл бұрын

    HDAs are open so users can poke around freely. You'd just need to right click / allow editing of contents, and then do as you wish :)

  • @massimobaita7178
    @massimobaita7178 Жыл бұрын

    Thank You very much!

  • @reaktorleak89
    @reaktorleak89 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for making all these fixes, this is a powerhouse tool.

  • @yehonataniiii
    @yehonataniiii Жыл бұрын

    You have inspired me to create my own hda!

  • @massimobaita7178
    @massimobaita7178 Жыл бұрын

    Great, Jason! Thank You very much!