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SIGGRAPH 2019 Presentations

houdini hive Siggraph 2019 presentations

v18 features

Heightfield Terracing SOP 2.0

New Group SOPs

Solaris

Physically based USD layout

Python 3

SideFX Labs Tools

Instant Meshes

Quad Remesher

VIDEO

• Use the Stroke SOP to draw guide curves and feed them back as an influence.

3D Straight Skeleton

VIDEO

PDG

Procedural Dependency Graph to automate workflows./ pipelines.

• process while you sleep

Integrations

Substance V2 plugin

• COPS based, so Substance nodes can be used anywhere in Houdini.
• youtube

<iframe width="720" height="432" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7X-r_XarMLI?start=1435?VQ=HD720" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

• workflow = Make a Substance archive (Spark), expose parameters, then load them in COPS.
• youtube

<iframe width="720" height="432" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7X-r_XarMLI?start=1821?VQ=HD720" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

AliceVision photogrammetry framework

AliceVision is a Photogrammetric Computer Vision Framework which provides a 3D Reconstruction and Camera Tracking algorithms. It has been made available as a plugin Houdini through the GameDevelopmentToolset.

VIMEO

SIDEFX tutorials alicevision-plugin/

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/318335199" width="720" height="432" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[TUTORIAL] Game Tools | AliceVision from Paul Ambrosiussen on Vimeo.

<iframe title="A 3D model" width="720" height="432" src="https://sketchfab.com/models/791850b543fe4616b26a08bbc0134bad/embed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; vr" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>

Wooden Lion by AliceVision on Sketchfab

Reality Capture plugin

Quadspinner

GAEA

Node based terrain editing tool. It exposes parameters from Gaea software. CommandLine Bride - Bundled TOR graphs - Custom TOR support. SideFX will start to bundle some standard TOR graphs like erosion, and some filters.

• SOP - Gaea Erosion node
• You can use Gaea Pro $199 or Enterprise $299 perpetual version

Game Development Toolset

Game Development Toolset will become SideFX Labs.

Maps Baker

COPS - It can bake a 4K map in 9 seconds. Curvature, Normal maps etc...

• It has an autobaker which can be automated with PDG. VIDEO

Building Generator

sidefx building generator tutorial

Texture Sheets

Where are the Learning Resources?

cgwiki

tokeru

• one
• two

goo

Getting Started

CGwiki Houdini Getting Started

Joy of VEX

houdini123

Working on procedural modelling allows insgtant feedback whilst becoming familar with the many nodes and how to connect them in networks.

GitHub repos

Entagma

Game Development Toolset

Tutorials LINK

Which Topics to Learn

Interface

Working withe Nodes

Create a step by step list of actions to data. Using nodes with attributes, and or VEX code tp procedurally operate on data points.

VEX code

require 'redcarpet'
markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")
puts markdown.to_html

Language

Cookling Recipes, resolving a Network of Nodes > digital assets (Tools) = Pipeline in a Box.

SOPS

COPS

Where am I storing my Data?

Github Repo stored locally in my G: Google File Stream.

How to Docs

VEX snippets

Example .hip files