Mastering Destruction in Houdini
Release date:2019, May
Author:Keith Kamholz
Skill level:Intermediate
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Unleash your inner FX monster, and let’s smash some buildings! In this destruction course, students will learn a comprehensive set of skills to develop beautiful work with a high degree of artistic control. This will include fracturing, RBD simulation, dust, debris, and adding details from real-world reference material. However, students will learn more than just the technical setups alone – they’ll also learn about production pipeline considerations, and innovative unique workflows for art-directing damage (both with & without simulation). By the end of the class, students will have a feature-film-quality destruction shot for their demo reel! Building asset provided by KitBash3D.
Week 1 | Boolean / Voronoi Fracturing & Destruction HDAs
Week 2 | Asset Prep / Fracture Workflow, & More HDAs!
Week 3 | Bullet Simulation Setup
Week 4 | Constraints
Week 5 | Additional Detail!
Week 6 | Debris
Week 7 | Windows
Week 8 | Dust
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 1
01 Overview
02 Vorono Fracturing
03 Clustering
04 Deformed Fractures
05 User Classes for Vorono Fracturing
06 Debugging Fracture Problems
07 Boolean Fractures
08 Cutter Detail
09 Cutter Detail Noise Options
10 Cutter Trimming
11 Cutter HDA Subnet Setup
12 Cutter HDA Parameter Overview
13 Shatter HDA
14 Cutter HDA Saving and Updates
15 Homework week 1
Week01 Q and A
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 2
01 Overview
02 Project and Scene Setup
03 Building Prep – Split Up Sections
03a Geometry Fix – Extrusion
03b Geometry Fix – Window Frames
03c Geometry Fix – Interior
03d Geometry Fix – Measure Fracture HDA
03e Geometry Fix – Attributes
04 Fracture Area – Cutting
04b Fracture Area – Separating
05 Fracture – Sectioning and HDA Update
05b Final Fracture
06 Homework
Week 02 Q and A
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 3
01 Overview
01a Optimize Small Pieces
01b Optimize Update Constraints
02 Convex Decompose
03 RBD Simulation Setup
04 Attributes and Activation
05 Deforming Colliders
06 Caching and Transforming
07 Initial Velocity
08 Geometry Wrangle and Custom Drag
09 Speed and Acceleration Limits
10 Homework
Week 03 Q and A
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 4
01 Overview
01a Constraints betweem Sections
01b Connect Adjacent Pieces SOP
02 Static Passive Selection
03 Clustering Manual Sections
03a Clustering Procedural Scatter
03b Clustering Geometry Loop
03c Clustering RDB Cluster SOP
04 Simulation with Constraints
05 Animated Grab Section
06 End Seection and Final RBD Simulation
07 Soft Constraints and Manual Breaking
08 Homework
Week 04 Q and A
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 5
01 Overview
01a Active Frame and Clump Attributes
02 Blendshapes
03a Static Section Crack Rotations
03b Static Section Sag Floors
03c Static Section Extract Transforms
04 Final Tweaks and Caches
05a Rebar Build Geometry
05b Rebar Scatter Area
05c Rebar Scatter and Transform
06 Homework
Week 05 Q and A
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 6
01 Overview
01a RBD Debris Source Scatter
01b RBD Debris Simulation
01c RBD Debris Instancing
02a RBD Debris Instanced Particles
02b RBD Debris Collisions
03 Point Particles Dirt and Grit
04a Full Building Debris
04b Full building Debris Instancing
05 Homework
Week 06 Q and A
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 7
01 Overview
01a Glass RBD Material Fracture SOP
01b Glass Custom Fracture Setup
02a Shatter Windows Source Points
02b Shatter Windows Instances
02c Shatter Windows Simulation
03a Glass Edges Fracture
03b Glass Edges Trim and Transform
04 Glass Sparkle and Glitter
05 Homework
Week 07 Q and A
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 8
01 Overview
01a Dust Density Source
02 Dust Sim Setup
03a Dust Building Collision
03b Dust Monster Collision
04 Dust Shape Settings
05 Dust Extra Sources
06 Dust Caching and Final Tweaks
07 Dust Rendering
08 Homework
Week 08 Q and A
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 1,3,4,5,6,7,8 – Files.7z
CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 2.7z
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awesome!! this is the best of houdini. thankyou very very much!!
week 1, video 9 is down.
The following videos are missing:
Week 1: 9
Week 2: 3C and Week 02 Q and A
week 3: 6
week 5: 5c
week 7: 2c
week 8: 1,2,7
Is this a full course because inn torrent it is 16 GB and here approximately 6.5 GB?
yes it full.
Where I can get the torrent link?
Hi
Any luck on reuploading “CGMA – Mastering Destruction in Houdini Week 2.7z”?
It’s down.
Thanks.