Houdini MOC

TOC

• General
• Attributes
• Rigging
• Karma
• Simulations
• TOPs
• LOPs
• CHOPs
• Grooming
• Coding
• Export
  • Rename data for C4D export
  • Convert Non-commercial to Indie
• Tools
  • General
  • Export
  • Managers
  • Camera tools
  • AI tools
• Troubleshooting
  • Crashes on the older AMD CPUs

General

• Houdini Sink
• Houdini configuration
• Houdini hotkeys

Attributes

• Houdini attributes

Rigging

• Houdini KineFX Sink
• Houdini APEX Sink

Karma

• Karma renderer
• Karma Sink

Simulations

DOPs and SOPs

• Houdini RBD Sink
• Houdini Vellum Sink
• Houdini Pyro Sink
• Houdini Fluids Sink
• Houdini Crowds Sink

Links

• The best resource for FX stuff taught by Stephen Knipping who is the head of destruction fx at ILM. really good at explaining stuff. paid tutorials but the first episodes in each of his series are free.

TOPs

• HoudiniTops
• Houdini native Flipbook rendering as workitems via TOP network

LOPs

• Houdini Solaris Sink

CHOPs

• Houdini CHOPs Sink

Grooming

• Speed Grooming in Houdini 19 from a Guy That Doesn't Groom
• Geometry to hair

Coding

• Houdini HScript Sink
• Houdini VEX Sink
• Houdini Python Sink
• Houdini parameter UI Sink

Textport

//Show largest node in memory
sopcache -v -L

// Show disk usage
cpio -ivt < YOURFILENAME.hip

Export

Rename data for C4D export

Convert Non-commercial to Indie

https://www.orbolt.com/upgrade-houdini-files

Tools

General

• MOPs MOPs GitHub
• qLib
• AELib
• AL-TOOLS / Ultimate Terrain Workflow Video
• HPaint
• Infection Solver
• Scientific Plugins and Toolsets for Houdini
• Collection of hip files that demonstrate some technique or are supplied together with some text article as examples by XAPKOHHEH
  includes: Plastic deformation based on con-twist bullet constraints, Copy Benchmark, HDK template, Beltrami-Klein and Poincare models for hyperbolic geometry, Local space flip simulation, N-Body algorithms, Radial Basis Function interpolation based deformation, Simple (minimum constraints) procedural car setup, Smoke/Pyro simulation with animatable division size, Throwing knives. Some of them include articles on the topic.

Export

• Export camera, objects and points from Houdini to After Effects HDALC
• Houdini_2_AE orbolt
• Houdini Snip. Save and exchange node graphs
• Houdini Flipbook render out using FFMpeg

Managers

• OD Tools Sink
• Full-featured animation sequencer
• Simple Batch Path Converter
• Material Library for Houdini Mantra, Redshift, Arnold, Octane
• Asset_USD_Builder Mtlx, Pixar Surface ( RenderMan ), Redshift, USD Preview
• The Object Manager  Build complex Textures for your Object that has multiple Materials assigned to it. Both the Houdini and Solaris

Camera tools

• Houdini Camera Target HDA
• Camera Shakify

AI tools

• MLOPS
• Stable Houdini

Troubleshooting

Crashes on the older AMD CPUs

2nd - 3rd gen Ryzen/Threadripper CPUs, probably some others as well

Source