Houdini Stuff

Sometimes you'll need the name of the parent/container node that you're working in. It might be a "car_01" or something li...

Plug Alpha attribute using User Data Float into OPACITY of Standard shader (in geometry section)

Bit of a waffly post here.. mostly for my own ref.. I had a case where there were a bunch of colour swatch cards in a display case of sort...

Lifted from the Houdini help page.. Useful for localised noise/breakup You can attach DOP nodes that modify velocity fields, such as  G...

Houdini camera projection is as simple as creating a "UV TEXTURE" node and plugging it into the geo you're projecting onto. I...

i@size=len(i[]@nameOfArray); the [] is actually [   ].

to have particles come alive, mid sim (or indeed, to have them stop mid sim) you just need to trigger the "stopped" attribute in y...