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Houdini Viscous Fluid Smear: Part 01 Basics with Guest Artist Welsing3D
🕑 Added 2025-03-27 19:22:53 +0000 UTCFriends,
I´m super excited about the first houdini tutorial mini series here on my patreon, especially for true Houdini Beginners like me! Let´s follow along with guest artist and Houdini expert Welsing3D https://www.instagram.com/welsing3d/ in this exciting course about viscous fluid smear simulations! I´m just super excited that this series starts and I will definitely fire up Houdini at the weekend and learn something new!
Disclaimer: Friends, don´t worry;-P. I absolutely love Cinema 4D, I just want to spice things up a bit now and then! LiquiGen, EmberGen, Houdini, X-Particles... It´s always good to have an understanding of other tools and know the strenghts and weaknesses of your tools. But let´s see when Maxon comes with Fluids around the corner!
For your information: This houdini mini-series will (most probably) be divided into 4 parts: 1. Basics, 2. Brush/Collider, 3. Simulation/Meshing and 4. Bubbles. And Part 02 will follow already next week!
In combination with Philipps upcoming lessons, I´m starting my new tutorial mini-series about super-complex cloth simulations with Cinema 4D also this weekend;-).
So... good and versatile quality content is ahead, my friends!
Thanks Philipp for your dedication to just make this course really high-quality and beginner-friendly + sharing a houdini starting file with us;-).
PS: You can get a free educational Houdini version here https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini-apprentice/
Comments
Peter
ah, got a working demo version now.. the secret seems to be the background ;-)
Philipp Welsing
IMPORTANT note: To be able to see the simulation result, the fluid mesh as well as the bubbles - as a first thing, find the three "filecache" nodes in the setup (beige, with a harddisk symbol on them). Select each, choose a save folder and a file name ending with: _$F5.bgeo.sc For example: D:/CACHES/sim_$F5.bgeo.sc Then press "Save to Disk" and let Houdini do the work. :) After all three caches have been completed (simulation cache, meshing cache and bubble cache), you are good to go! Feel free to ask questions here, if you get stuck.
Philipp Welsing
I think so, too. 200 bucks for the same software used for Marvel movies or The Last Of Us. Up to 100K income per year. I really love that pricing, it's super fair. SideFX are a company that is very close to their user base. Not something super usual these days...
Ryan Petro
Right on. You’re the man! Yea tjats not bad at all… extremely reasonable actually. Looking forward to it!
Ryan Petro
Sweet thanks for the info dude. I thought that was the jam, I couldn’t commit without asking the pro’s. Thanks. 200 for two years is great actually, I thought it was way steeper than that. With c4d and x-particles, and liquigen or whatever else its prob the same amount. I just wonder what the true pros and cons are of each. I love c4d I’ve been going hard for about 6 months, coming from a compositing background and I absolutely love it. Do you like it?
markusgonser
200dollars...what a great price! Anyway Friends! Don´t worry. You can take these cool lessons just as additional inspiration or you can start your additional houdini journey. There´s upcoming C4D content in the pipeline too, of course;-).
Philipp Welsing
The free one is called Apprentice. It has minor limitations. The most popular paid one is Indie. That one is the full version, no limitations and is 200 dollars for two years. Which is pretty amazing for the full software. Cheers! :)
Ryan Petro
Ahhh okay! Cool.. I wanted to start learning Houdini a bit myself. I went and checked out the subscription, and I was a little confused with the whole thing. Which one are you using? There’s a free version that says something about watermarks, which is insane id rather never work in 3D again, then there’s like 10 different paid versions?
markusgonser
Noooooooo! Never, I love Cinema 4D! I just wanted to spice things up until...Maxon comes with their Fluids;-)
Ryan Petro
Does this mean… you broke up with C4D?? 🥺
