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Rocket Trail HIP Files

Here are the hip files from the tutorial. One is a start file if you want to follow along and the other is the completed tutorial if you want to pick it apart.

Tutorial: Rocket Trail with Pyro Clustering

My very first video tutorial is about how to create a smoke trail for a fast moving object using a combination of shelf tools and custom setups to get the best out of Houdini shelf smoke trail setup. 

Its about twice as long as I planned it to be and I'll try and keep future videos shorter :) . There are some sections that I think I didn't do the best jobs of explaining so feel free to let me know if I need to have another go at explaining anything.

Enjoy and thanks for watching. 2018-11-28 08:01:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Mic Check ..1 ..2 ..3

Great news bought a desktop mic so its video tutorial time! Its my first tutorial focused purchase so I can ramp things up and start adding video tutorials to my collection.

I want to give a big thanks to my patrons for helping make it possible.

Sticky Grain HIP

With Houdini 17 released and the amazing new addition of the Vellum solver its made my old stick setup obsolete. I was working on a tutorial but I don't think its work doing anymore but I still want to give my patrons an insight into how I did it. 

Enjoy :)

Sticky Refresh

Testing out the sticky setup to make sure everything is still working for the upcoming tutorial. 

Quick Tip: Multiple Flipbook Sessions

Here is a handy tip if your like me and have ever overwritten unsaved flipbook captures by mistake.  

https://zybrand.xyz/multiple-flipbook-sessions

VEX: Measuring Polyline Length

It's time to get your rulers out and make some measurements: https://zybrand.xyz/vex-how-to-measure-polyline-length Enjoy

Quick Tip: Extracting a Vector from a Quaternion

The first quick tip is on the blog. Its VEX and it's about extracting a vector directly from a quaternion like say the orient attribute. It's not the most common thing to do but I needed to do exactly that recently. Like to the post: https://zybrand.xyz/quick-tip-code-extracting-a-vector-from-a-quaternion#more-175 Enjoy

Check Out the Blog

Ok the blog is up and running with the first few posts. Including the first tutorial post with more to follow soon. Go have a look at: https://zybrand.xyz/blog