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Quick Tip: FLIP Pump Force

Hi Everyone!  

In this quick tip I cover setting up a pump force for FLIP and I explain the settings when using the pull operation to apply the force to the simulation. 

I Hav...

Tearing Vellum Grain Part 4 HIP File

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Z

Tutorial: Tearing Vellum Grain Part 4

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Here is part 4 the final instalment of this series. It's a walk through of the tutorial preview video Organic Rock.

It's a bit long but it covers the whole setup from star...

Tearing Vellum Grain HIP Files

Here are the hip files from the tearing grain tutorials.

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Z

Tutorial: Tearing Vellum Grain - Part 3

In part 3 we will look at how to mesh the simulations we have using the constraint network.    

Part 4 will be for Patreon members only and I walk you through the Organic Rock ...

Tutorial: Tearing Vellum Grain - Part 2

Following on from part 1 in this video we will be using VEX to build our own custom stitch constraints to glue the grains together. In the process I will setup another simulation using different se...

Tutorial: Tearing Vellum Grain - Part 1

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In part 1 of this tutorial I will show you how to simulate a tearing jelly like mass using vellum grain. I'll show you what constraints you need and what gotcha to watch out for...

Camera Silhouette Hip File

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QUICK TIP: Camera Silhouette

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In this quick tip I show you how get the camera silhouette of a 3D object, not to be confused with getting the Fresnel or facing ratio. With this technic you can out...

Crown Splash From Scratch - HIP File

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Tutorial: Crown Splash From Scratch

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In this tutorial I show you how to setup a crown splash from scratch with FLIP fluids in Houdini.  

I have made a few tutorials about small scale FLIP fluids and surfa...

Tutorial: Vellum Grass (Basic Plasticity)

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In this tutorial I create a grass patch in sops and simulate it with vellum as hair strands. I then go through using plasticity to make the grass stay in place when bent by...

Cymatic RBDs Part 4 - RBD Upres HIP file

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Z

Cymatic RBDs Part 3 - RBD Sim HIP File

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Tutorial: Cymatic RBDs Part 3 - RBD Sim

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In part 3 we finally get to make the force field and apply it our RBDs to simulate the patterns. 

That will be all the simulation work for this series done. Ther...

Cymatic RBDs Part 2 HIP File

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Z

Tutorial: Cymatic RBDs Part 2 - Initial State Setup

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In part 2 we will build the initial RBD instances in sop and setup an initial rest state in DOPs to use for the main simulation.

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Z

Tutorial: Cymatic RBDs Part 1 - Creating The Chladni Pattern

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A new tutorial series is here and we are making some more custom forces this time to mess with RBDs :) . I made it a 5 parts so the videos don't get to long.

Here is...

Cymatic RBDs Part 1 HIP File

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Z

Mask Surface Tension HIP File

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Quick Tip: Mask Surface Tension

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In this video I show how you can mask surface tension using a volume field from SOPs. In it I demonstrate two ways of getting SOP data into the DOP network and how to get it to ...

Tutorial: POPs Custom Shield Force

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In this tutorial I'll show you one way of setting up a custom shield force in POPs using a combination of force fields setup in SOPs and updating point positions in POPs.&...

Tutorial: Trigger Setup for Emitting RBDs

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It's been a while but I am back on the horse :) . In this tutorial I show you how to make a trigger setup in sops that can be used for RBD emission or to drive any other s...

Early Christmas Gift

Hi everyone, 

This year has been a crazy year for all of us so I decided that December is on the house. I pause the billing cycle and patrons will only be charged again from 1 January 20...

Suction Force and Pump Force HIP Files

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Haven't share the hip files for my last two tutorials yet. My bad here are the files and input geometry. 

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Z

Tutorial: FLIP - Morphing with Suction Fluid

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In this tutorial I show how you can use the suction fluid shelf tool in combination with other custom forces. Along the way I reveal some tip for displaying the force as well an...

Tutorial: FLIP - Volume Pump Force (Curve Force)

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Finally here is my first video tutorial in a while, it's one of the requests from discord.

In this tutorial I show you how to setup a pump force as a volume for for FLIP w...

Houly Challenge! Week 5

And last but not least week 5. Now I can get back to making some tutorials again.

Enjoy!

Z

Houly Challenge! Week 4

Hey Everyone! 

Here are the rest of the Houly hip files, unfiltered so some of them are a mess and some are more useful than others.

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Z

Houly Challenge! Week 3

Hey Everyone! 

Here are the rest of the Houly hip files, unfiltered so some of them are a mess and some are more useful than others.

Enjoy!

Z