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MAKING SOLARIS EASY - #4 - Lighting / Scene Setup / Camera Import
Merging multiple Geometries, Lighting the scene, and Importing a camera from OBJ level in Solaris!
MAKING SOLARIS EASY - #3 - Assign Materials / EZ Import HDA material Options
Assigning Materials in Solaris using the EZ IMPORT HDA
Solaris EZ HDA suite :: Version 1.0
Pack includes:-EZ Import-EZ Variant-EZ instance 2 Points-EZ Render
MAKING SOLARIS EASY - #1 - Installing Redshift for Solaris
In this video we install the Redshift Hydra Delegate to get Houdini's Solaris to work with Redshift!PXR_PLUGINPATH_NAME = "C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Solaris/${HOUDINI_VERSION}"
MAKING SOLARIS EASY - #2 - Importing Geo / EZ Import HDA settings
Overview of the import settings on the EZ Import HDA attached below!
Finishing the HDA pack!
Spending today and the rest of this week finishing the HDA pack for you guys! Any specific tools you all have been looking for recently?? The pack is called EZ tools and primarily focuses on making fast and easy HDAs that either have great out of the box looks and performance or fast and useful edit...
Redshift Maxon Noise Chart
There's a few charts already covering RS Maxon Noises Floating around but they typically display them using them for displacement or roughness. These are great for reference but to me theyve always seemed alittle misleading as the scale of the noise matters a good deal.Because of that I decided ...
FREE HDA: EZ Paint Blend Shapes HDA overview
A quick overview of my EZ Paint Blend Shapes HDA! Free Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11GHRhIw_wSvJiAFmWWIbxgdwcDSTRDwb/view?usp=sharing
Rigging the IREX Constraints Part 1
Recorded the first part of this course today! A lot more content in there then I originally thought so this will be a two part series. However if any of you want to look around the HIP file while I am editing the recorded footage feel free to download it here!
New tutorials!
Finally have some time today to continue filming the courses I have planned! Anyone have any extra topics they want covered??
RIGGING THE I-REX PART 1: Building The Skeleton
Part One of the In-Depth Dinosaur rigging tutorial series I am doing, More to follow shortly I just haven't had time to edit them up yet! Skeleton setup is the most time consuming (and probably most boring) part of rigging but is also crucial to getting a professional quality rig! FBX AND HIP FI...
First HDA Rollout
Here is the first rollout of HDAs! Just copy and paste these into your Houdini18.5 otls folder!Included:______________//OBJ Level:______________-Quaternion Transform-Test Scene-Scene Dress Display (for quick lighting lookdev)-Top Level Geo Editor (Lots of options for final level Geometry Editing)___...
NEW CONTENT SOON, HDAS FOR NOW
Hi guys! Sorry about the delay in getting premium KineFX Content to you all quicker! I actually have a large course covering the rigging of a trex front to back recorded already i just need to edit it up since its rather large! For now though I will be sharing my custom HDA library collection with y...
Houdini KineFX 101: Motion Clips // Blending Motion Clip Animations
In this tutorial I show how to use Motion Clips, MotionClip Blends, and Motion Clip Sequence along
HOW TO USE: Redshift AutoCam HDA
Tutorial overviewing how to operate the HDA
Houdini KineFX 101: Attach Object To Rig // Capture Packed Geometry
In this tutorial I show how you would go about attaching a static piece of geometry to your character rig in KineFX
Houdini KineFX 101: Rigging From Scratch, Binding Skin to bones, Simple Constraints
In this tutorial I rig the default Tommy Character from the ground up for a quick and simple character rig, in the future I will do a much more in depth rigging process but for most people this process should be plenty.More advanced courses coming here soon!

























