Hey everyone, if you are using a version later than 17.4.12, please adjust the following settings: -Keyframe dissipation on the pyrosolver to 0.7 at frame 1, 0.5 at frame 48 and remove the keyframe at frame 72. -Adjust boundary size on the smoke object to 8x8x12 -Ensure sufficient padding on the gas resize (Padding of 4, and then 2x2x2 on both upper and lower scale or 8 on main padding alternatively). This should remove any issues with clipping and dissipation. The reason that this became an issue is due to a change in 17.4.12 where the following change was made: "A bug has been fixed in the smoke solver that affected simulations with animated timescales, cooling, and temperature diffusion rates. The solver works correctly in those regards now, meaning old simulations to which this change is relevant will produce different results." This resulted in keyframing not working as intended. Hope this helps solve the issues that many of you have encountered. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
Hi, I'm new to Houdini and doing this tutorial in version 19.0.561. Just wanted to post this for anyone who may have been running into the same Attribute Noise node problem I was having. Since SideFX changed the Attribute Noise node in version 18.5 it was hard to get the same effect Nine Between got, but the closest fix I found after searching was to use an Attribute Adjust node instead of the Attribute Noise. Attribute Adjust allows you to change the Pattern Type to Noise and seems to work how the Attribute Adjust works in the tutorial video
you should go houdini assets--> asset manager --> configuration-->> change asset configuration toolbar drop down to show always. close now for every node property window you will have drop down menu in top part of tab, where you can change the version of that menu.
Kinda deceiving having to go through the whole tutorial to end up using a custom made node made available only to patreons. But to each their own. Thanks for the teachings...
Great tutorial, thank you for this one! One thing I'd like to point is that I ended up downloading v17 because the Attribute Noise node changed significantly and since I am new to Houdini I was not able to replicate the settings on the new nodes. Still it opens fine in v18.5 and renders much faster. So this is well worth working through if you are looking to use this effect in your next project.
I love your tutorials they are really easy to follow and informative! If I may make a small suggestion for future tutorials. If the tutorial involves anything from your Patreon, like this one involved the lightning HDA, could you make that clear at the start of the video. For those of us who aren't pledged to you, it's a really bummer to follow it this far only to realize that we can't complete it and put the lightning in.
Thanks for the feedback, admittedly it is unfair to those who follow until that point. I will ensure that it is stated upfront in future tutorials. My apologies. Thank you for watching!
A really great tutorial! Wouldn't mind hearing some reasoning behind the scaling decisions of the fields though. I mean, if You'd be willing to go into a little more detail on why density, vel, temperature where set one way in SOPs and then imported with different values into DOPs, it would be greatly appreciated. Any specific reason for not setting them up to that size already in SOPs? I see Houdini shelf tools do the same. A great fast paced and informative tutorial anyway! Thank You!
Well, that's a bold statement... I was able to finish it. I just don't have fancy lightning bolts inside the smoke belt. But imho that's a detail compared to the rest of the very valuable information in this tutorial!
Would be cool to do the disintegration effect from Avengers: Infinity War on a actual live plate, There aren't a lot of Houdini live action tutorials so I think it would be great if you could do one.
Hey, quick question I am getting the error "smokeobject1 - /obj/SMOKE/volumesource3/merge_field: The specified field could not be found. " on volumesource3. Got any clue on how to fix it? :D
great tutorial bro, but why is smoke from vdb is not giving proper quality , even after i reduced the voxel size and everything , even in your final output the smoke quality is not that greast, not criticising on your work , im just curious to know can we even increase the smoke quality if we produce it by vdb volume please let me know thanks, youre doing great
// Hm, I am having an issue at the part at about 10 mins. The particles are not shooting out in these bundles that you have, and I have not a clue why. I checked everything about 5 times now, and all I do in my file is the exact same as in yours. I'm on version 18. Some help would be super nice. ^^" Peace!
The Rubber Toy Thanos is available to our Patrons. If you'd like to check it out then please feel free to give our Patreon a visit. Thanks for watching!
Hello.After creating the SMOKE DOP Network I cannot seem to get any smoke when running the simulation.I get the boundary box exactly like yours but no smoke inside it is completely empty.Any ideas what I might be missing?Thank you for the great tutorial! @Nine Between
Great video! I was able to follow most of it, but I'm having trouble seeing the smoke. Does not appear at all. Also, render view is just black. I've got the camera, lights not sure why I'm not seeing anything. Please help, new to Houdini. I would love to see this to the end!
anyone not getting the smoke to appear near 24:00? Another odd detail is that the primitive vertice numbers are negative, unlike in his tutorial. Up until clean, it looks the exact same.
I'm getting a strange error in the lightning node after I add the trail node. I get a red triangle and the error is " Error Invalid source /obj/Setup/filecache1/read_back Error: Unable to read file "G:/Houdini/ThanosPortalCurve.0.bgeo.sc". GeometryIO[hjson]: Unable to open file 'G:/Houdini/ThanosPortalCurve.0.bgeo.sc' GeometryIO[hclassic]: Unable to open file 'G:/Houdini/ThanosPortalCurve.0.bgeo.sc'. " It's saying it can't read the first file in the filecache, but the first file actually starts with 1. Should I re-render the filecache?
Anyone else having a problem with resampling? I did everything he said and no extra points came up. I am a complete beginner so I am not sure if this is a specific version that does this effect because I can't tell what I am doing wrong.
I have a error. I can't fixed (Houdini 19) pyrosolver1 Pyro Solver Dop (pyrosolver::2.0) Unable to evaluate expression (Bad data type for function or operation (/obj/SMOKE/pyrosolver1/veltype)).
Hello! I am Chinese, can not speak English, this message is translated by software, I hope you can understand! The smoke I get from your tutorial is granular. What's the problem? Looking forward to your reply!
Hi I am a noob to houdini which version are you using Free, Indie, Artists, Studios, Education or Houdini engine. Idk which version to get so I'm hoping you tell me which one you have. Thanks
Hey, quick one to clear it up: Houdini apprentice is the free version, it can do everything but renders with a watermark. Houdini Indie is the cheapest option which most people use and you can use it as long as you earn less than 100,000 dollars per year from Houdini. Houdini FX is the same as Indie but it's used if you earn more than the 100k. Houdini core has slightly limited features but is cheaper so studios that don't need everything don't have to pay for Houdini FX. Houdini engine is what's used to get Houdini tools into other software such as Unity or Unreal. I use indie but I do have an fx license. I'd recommend indie to pretty much anyone.
I followed the tutorial pretty much exacly as the video, but the end result is WAY less impressive. The shadows of the smoke are non-existent, the smoke itself has barely any "texture" of smoke, and the colors inside are barely visible, any ideas why this is happening? Using the Apprentice version of Houdini. Edit to say thanks for the tutorial, 50 minutes of pure Houdini knowledge, you rock!
Thank you for the great tutorial. What's wrong with this error when I try to Render Frame Range? SOP Error: Invalid source /obj/Setup/filecache1/read_back Error: Unable to read file "C:/Users/SERVER/Desktop/houdini_pyi/portal/CurveParticlesTut/CurveParticlesTut.0.bgeo.sc". GeometryIO[hjson]: Unable to open file 'C:/Users/SERVER/Desktop/houdini_pyi/portal/CurveParticlesTut/CurveParticlesTut.0.bgeo.sc' GeometryIO[hclassic]: Unable to open file 'C:/Users/SERVER/Desktop/houdini_pyi/portal/CurveParticlesTut/CurveParticlesTut.0.bgeo.sc'. Please, help me.....
for some reason around 10:00 min my pop replicate particles that we attract at the center last for the whole siquence and I cant make them last less with the attribute wrangle. what am I doing wrong ?
Thank you! I have one question/problem regarding the dopio filecache at 42:00. When I try to scrub the time line after caching it is very slow when I have the cooking brain icon checked on, but fine after I disable it. Did you manage to avoid cooking times in some other way even if the "brain" is on? Thanks!
Hi, the issue may be that you still have your DOP network displayed. If you disable the display flag on everything except the caching node, it should no longer cook the DOP network. You should also make sure that the 'load from disk' option on the file cache node is checked. Hope that helps!
Great tutorial and the effect is awesome! I'd like to know what your pc specifications are, because my pc took a long time in particle sim. Could you provide the CPU, GPU and RAM info for me? That will be a good reference for my pc setup, thx :)
Hi, I followed the tutorial but my portal is very non-smoke like and the particles are coming off as spheres in the render and after the VDB from Particles in the Smoke Doptnet work. I'm on Houdini version 17.5.229. Any tips on making it more smoke like rather than all the tiny spheres shape? :)
I just finished the tutorial and I'm seeing the exact same thing. I spent a lot of time playing with values to try to fix this without any luck. I know the apprentice version of Houdini limits render to 1280x720, does this limit also apply to the viewport? Is this the reason why it looks so ugly compared to the tutorial?
@@TheFlukeism Erm not too sure about the whole rendering limitations, but I'm pretty sure it's because of the amount of particles is too low for a sharp looking enough smoke portal (correct me if I am wrong!). You can try going to your Curve Particle popnet > source first input > birth tab > increase your impulse count to maybe a 100000. It's denser for me now but I will fix the final look in comp.
Increasing the particle amount was one of the first things I tried without much luck in making it look like what I see in the tutorial. I'm also struggling with applying the pyro fireball shader for render, I can't get the fire color ramp to display any color. Let me know if you manage to get a good final render result. This tutorial has been awesome, I have learned a lot and I've probably spent about 15 hours on it now. I would really like to finish it with a nice looking final render but I feel like I'm missing a few key pieces of information.
I managed to get the cloud to look pretty decent. I did this by tweaking settings in the popnet, I think I was getting problems due to the file caches. I had them bypassed and had load to disk turned off but it wasn't until I wiped and made new caches that I saw the good results. Now just to need to figure out what's going on with this fireball shader and why I'm not seeing any color from my temperature.
Hi, I want to ask if I spent $5, and I unlock [ Lightning HDA Installation and Usage Guide], means I will get Lightning HDA file, or this just a [Installation and Usage Guide]?
@ 45:18 on the VEXpression I'm getting an error with the "fit" function "/obj/lightning/attribwrangle1/attribvop1/snippet1: No matching function for float" can anyone help? i have it typed the same as he does
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Hey everyone, if you are using a version later than 17.4.12, please adjust the following settings:
-Keyframe dissipation on the pyrosolver to 0.7 at frame 1, 0.5 at frame 48 and remove the keyframe at frame 72.
-Adjust boundary size on the smoke object to 8x8x12
-Ensure sufficient padding on the gas resize (Padding of 4, and then 2x2x2 on both upper and lower scale or 8 on main padding alternatively).
This should remove any issues with clipping and dissipation. The reason that this became an issue is due to a change in 17.4.12 where the following change was made: "A bug has been fixed in the smoke solver that affected simulations with animated timescales, cooling, and temperature diffusion rates. The solver works correctly in those regards now, meaning old simulations to which this change is relevant will produce different results." This resulted in keyframing not working as intended.
Hope this helps solve the issues that many of you have encountered. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
Nine Between thank you!
I didn't read it before. XD. Perhaps that's why I didn't work. Gotta try it out later.
"-Adjust boundary size on the smoke object to 8x8x12" - so we are removing from object and setting this size?
plz，waiting 4 U update!!!!!form CN
Thanks! Does anyone know why vdbfromparticles wont work in 17.5? I dont get the same result when using this node. Mine just turns into a fog sphere?
Laughed so much when Thanos came out of the portal ;D gj!
haha, Thanks Osha :D
@@NineBetween
Hi! Can you make some Houdini programming tutorials?
Hi, I'm new to Houdini and doing this tutorial in version 19.0.561. Just wanted to post this for anyone who may have been running into the same Attribute Noise node problem I was having. Since SideFX changed the Attribute Noise node in version 18.5 it was hard to get the same effect Nine Between got, but the closest fix I found after searching was to use an Attribute Adjust node instead of the Attribute Noise. Attribute Adjust allows you to change the Pattern Type to Noise and seems to work how the Attribute Adjust works in the tutorial video
you should go houdini assets--> asset manager --> configuration-->> change asset configuration toolbar drop down to show always. close
now for every node property window you will have drop down menu in top part of tab, where you can change the version of that menu.
@@mordecai1484 Thank you very much for the advice.
@@mordecai1484 Interesting! I'll give this a try when
@@mordecai1484 Thank you
@@mordecai1484you are life saver bro❤
Kinda deceiving having to go through the whole tutorial to end up using a custom made node made available only to patreons. But to each their own. Thanks for the teachings...
Probably one of the best ones you did! Please upload more often!
@Shane Hanlon thanks for pointing it out, I'll join asap next month
I respect every Houdini users ! What a software !
Great tutorial, thank you for this one! One thing I'd like to point is that I ended up downloading v17 because the Attribute Noise node changed significantly and since I am new to Houdini I was not able to replicate the settings on the new nodes. Still it opens fine in v18.5 and renders much faster. So this is well worth working through if you are looking to use this effect in your next project.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUT AND FILE
Hay.. can u send me those files please
the intro showcase of the effect alone deserves a like haha
I'm a student your tutorial helped me a lot thanks for the tutorial, keep teaching us
I love your tutorials they are really easy to follow and informative! If I may make a small suggestion for future tutorials. If the tutorial involves anything from your Patreon, like this one involved the lightning HDA, could you make that clear at the start of the video. For those of us who aren't pledged to you, it's a really bummer to follow it this far only to realize that we can't complete it and put the lightning in.
Thanks for the feedback, admittedly it is unfair to those who follow until that point. I will ensure that it is stated upfront in future tutorials. My apologies. Thank you for watching!
@@NineBetween
spoiled the mood
A really great tutorial! Wouldn't mind hearing some reasoning behind the scaling decisions of the fields though. I mean, if You'd be willing to go into a little more detail on why density, vel, temperature where set one way in SOPs and then imported with different values into DOPs, it would be greatly appreciated. Any specific reason for not setting them up to that size already in SOPs? I see Houdini shelf tools do the same.
A great fast paced and informative tutorial anyway! Thank You!
Thank brother for a nice tutorial, Please keep uploading , thank you
Really took til 46:00 to mention that the effect couldn't be finished without a Patreon subscription
OMG THANK YOU, u saved me from watching this video yet its only lighting so its not that bad but still.
@@tristanstier lol tristan, didnt mean to see you here
@@tristanstier I'd fully recommend their other tutorials (the Houdini Isn't Scary series is brilliant) but I'm glad to have saved you some time :)
thanks for saving me time. i hate when people do this
Well, that's a bold statement... I was able to finish it. I just don't have fancy lightning bolts inside the smoke belt. But imho that's a detail compared to the rest of the very valuable information in this tutorial!
Would be cool to do the disintegration effect from Avengers: Infinity War on a actual live plate, There aren't a lot of Houdini live action tutorials so I think it would be great if you could do one.
Person acting, clean plate, model person, disintegrate model, export to comp of choice.
You are a great teacher !
Thanks Devin, much appreciated!
OH! I love this kind of tutorials! that teach how to make a cool project
could you please make more tutorials like that?
The thing we enjoyed is the thanos in this video XD
Thanks for the awesome tutorial
Holy moly, it looks just like it too. Thanks so much!
haha, no problem, thanks for watching :)
great tut
I don't get any of that but it's so interesting to watch. keep producing this kind of video. I loved it!
Great tutorial! Thank you for sharing! :)
Really good!
I replayed the first part of the video just to see "Thanos the Rubber toy" haha, thanks for the amazing tut
Haha, honestly, we had way too much fun making the Thanos rubber toy. Thanks for watching!
Dude I'm impressed to your tutorial. Def subscribed!!
I've learnt a lot of new things from you. Thank you for sharing.
I’ve never laughed so hard than when I saw the rubber toy dressed as thanos 😂
Awesom tut, thanks
I totally cracked up when the rubber toy floated through the portal
thinking about learning houdini... noped out of that quickly...
Hey, quick question I am getting the error "smokeobject1 - /obj/SMOKE/volumesource3/merge_field: The specified field could not be found. " on volumesource3. Got any clue on how to fix it? :D
I have similar issue
Where to find the Lightning HDA feature . Or need to buy a full lesson?
you made a great tutorial like always do :)
Thanks a lot Abdullah, glad you liked it :)
that's one of the best intros i've ever seen
Awesome! Thanks a lot!
No problem! Enjoy
Please add some updete for 19.5 version or, many nodes has changed :c
😍😍😍 love it. Thanks dude hahah
Thanks a lot man for the tuts.
Great tut and Like your voice ! Sound like it's simple tut listen and do it. You've done !
Thank you so much!!
No problem :)
You sound exactly like Brackeys, except a little less excited haha :o
great tutorial bro, but why is smoke from vdb is not giving proper quality , even after i reduced the voxel size and everything , even in your final output the smoke quality is not that greast, not criticising on your work , im just curious to know can we even increase the smoke quality if we produce it by vdb volume
please let me know thanks, youre doing great
// Hm,
I am having an issue at the part at about 10 mins. The particles are not shooting out in these bundles that you have, and I have not a clue why. I checked everything about 5 times now, and all I do in my file is the exact same as in yours. I'm on version 18.
Some help would be super nice. ^^"
Peace!
Great technique. Thanks for this
I have apprentice version of Houdini. I cant find a single node he is using. Can anyone say where to find them or should install them indvidually.
You may need to install side fx but this is super easy to do within Houdini/ looking online
THERE IS NO NODE "LIGHTNING NO BASES" IN HOUDINI 17.5.173
The attribute noise node changed in my version (18.5), for example there is no parameter like the 3D one, I don't know what to do.
Thank You very much!
haha, I like this Rubber Toy Thanos, nice work. LOL.
please.. i need this rubber thanos hahahaha
The Rubber Toy Thanos is available to our Patrons. If you'd like to check it out then please feel free to give our Patreon a visit. Thanks for watching!
@@NineBetween sorry i cant find the file on patreon anywhere?
@@Cybernetix3D Hey Tim, I messaged you on Patreon, hope it helps!
LOL!!! The Rubber Toy Cracked me up!!! I am still watching but just wanted to say that made me laugh :D
yea that was epic lol
Haha, glad you like it! Be careful though, the most dangerous being in the universe is nothing to laugh at.
Well, I can't even model a doughnut .
work hard boy :)
Sounds like you need to watch Blender Guru. He doesn't teach Houdini but will fill all your doughnut needs :-)
Bailey cohen LoL 😂
Hello.After creating the SMOKE DOP Network I cannot seem to get any smoke when running the simulation.I get the boundary box exactly like yours but no smoke inside it is completely empty.Any ideas what I might be missing?Thank you for the great tutorial! @Nine Between
same
Thank you very much!! I'll study a lot :) 31:52
pls give a tutorial of how you have render this portal (explain everyting what material how to render)
Great video! I was able to follow most of it, but I'm having trouble seeing the smoke. Does not appear at all. Also, render view is just black. I've got the camera, lights not sure why I'm not seeing anything. Please help, new to Houdini. I would love to see this to the end!
You probably already figured this out but I think it's because it's "Non-Commercial Edition"
Hi, I did all of these but the resolution is not good. I want it to be in Good Quality tho, how do you adjust that? thank you!
What resolution are talking about? Video. or pyro resolution?
@@vitalie96 smoke res. i have that problem too
anyone not getting the smoke to appear near 24:00? Another odd detail is that the primitive vertice numbers are negative, unlike in his tutorial. Up until clean, it looks the exact same.
Please attach a Thanos toy in the description. A project without it does not look like anyway !!! help!!!!)
I'm getting a strange error in the lightning node after I add the trail node. I get a red triangle and the error is "
Error
Invalid source /obj/Setup/filecache1/read_back
Error: Unable to read file "G:/Houdini/ThanosPortalCurve.0.bgeo.sc".
GeometryIO[hjson]: Unable to open file 'G:/Houdini/ThanosPortalCurve.0.bgeo.sc'
GeometryIO[hclassic]: Unable to open file 'G:/Houdini/ThanosPortalCurve.0.bgeo.sc'.
"
It's saying it can't read the first file in the filecache, but the first file actually starts with 1. Should I re-render the filecache?
Was that Thanos-Thanos?
So nice u say it twice
Anyone else having a problem with resampling? I did everything he said and no extra points came up. I am a complete beginner so I am not sure if this is a specific version that does this effect because I can't tell what I am doing wrong.
same problem
I have a error. I can't fixed (Houdini 19)
pyrosolver1
Pyro Solver Dop (pyrosolver::2.0)
Unable to evaluate expression (Bad data type for function or operation (/obj/SMOKE/pyrosolver1/veltype)).
hi guys. i hit one issue, after file cached the effects. the scene become blank. any idea how to solve this
That Thanos outta portal :D
Hello! I am Chinese, can not speak English, this message is translated by software, I hope you can understand!
The smoke I get from your tutorial is granular. What's the problem? Looking forward to your reply!
hey @Nine Between there same node is change in Houdini 18.5 you made in Houdini 17 so plz explain how to fix it
Hi I am a noob to houdini which version are you using Free, Indie, Artists, Studios, Education or Houdini engine. Idk which version to get so I'm hoping you tell me which one you have. Thanks
Hey, quick one to clear it up: Houdini apprentice is the free version, it can do everything but renders with a watermark. Houdini Indie is the cheapest option which most people use and you can use it as long as you earn less than 100,000 dollars per year from Houdini. Houdini FX is the same as Indie but it's used if you earn more than the 100k. Houdini core has slightly limited features but is cheaper so studios that don't need everything don't have to pay for Houdini FX. Houdini engine is what's used to get Houdini tools into other software such as Unity or Unreal. I use indie but I do have an fx license. I'd recommend indie to pretty much anyone.
I followed the tutorial pretty much exacly as the video, but the end result is WAY less impressive. The shadows of the smoke are non-existent, the smoke itself has barely any "texture" of smoke, and the colors inside are barely visible, any ideas why this is happening? Using the Apprentice version of Houdini.
Edit to say thanks for the tutorial, 50 minutes of pure Houdini knowledge, you rock!
Same here
thank you master!!!!
well, it would be awesome If I could get that Thanos roberto
HOW DID YOU MAKE YOUR INTRO I WANNA KNOW PLS
Thank you for the great tutorial. What's wrong with this error when I try to Render Frame Range?
SOP Error: Invalid source /obj/Setup/filecache1/read_back
Error: Unable to read file "C:/Users/SERVER/Desktop/houdini_pyi/portal/CurveParticlesTut/CurveParticlesTut.0.bgeo.sc".
GeometryIO[hjson]: Unable to open file 'C:/Users/SERVER/Desktop/houdini_pyi/portal/CurveParticlesTut/CurveParticlesTut.0.bgeo.sc'
GeometryIO[hclassic]: Unable to open file 'C:/Users/SERVER/Desktop/houdini_pyi/portal/CurveParticlesTut/CurveParticlesTut.0.bgeo.sc'.
Please, help me.....
please can you comp it in nuke or after effects of person walking in or out of this portal.
really cool but as someone said the result was a portal too thin ...what's wrong?
thanos was adorable
for some reason around 10:00 min my pop replicate particles that we attract at the center last for the whole siquence and I cant make them last less with the attribute wrangle. what am I doing wrong ?
ScaduxX were you able to fix this? I'm having the same problem
I'm having the same problem now, did you fixed it
@@tomwitteman8682 make sure your @Frame has a capital F in the code
@@Zac3D You made my day
@@Zac3D thank you so much...
Thank you! I have one question/problem regarding the dopio filecache at 42:00. When I try to scrub the time line after caching it is very slow when I have the cooking brain icon checked on, but fine after I disable it. Did you manage to avoid cooking times in some other way even if the "brain" is on? Thanks!
Hi, the issue may be that you still have your DOP network displayed. If you disable the display flag on everything except the caching node, it should no longer cook the DOP network. You should also make sure that the 'load from disk' option on the file cache node is checked. Hope that helps!
How did you make rubber toy out of that can you please tell that
hey! thank you so much for the tutorial but im stuck at finding attribute noise. why dont i have that? my houdini version is 16.5. thank youuu
you have attribute randomise i also have 16.5 this have some similar function.
Great tutorial and the effect is awesome! I'd like to know what your pc specifications are, because my pc took a long time in particle sim. Could you provide the CPU, GPU and RAM info for me? That will be a good reference for my pc setup, thx :)
Hi Teacher, Where can I find the lightning_no_bases?
rubber toy is the next level 😂
i for some reason cant get the popgroup "fastgroup" to show up in the popreplicate node
If you wanted final result into c4d, what file format would you need to export as to gain control of lighting effect etc...
I cannot see my point trails. I have the guide selected on
Can this be imported into unreal Engine?? Would it work?
The attribute noise in 19.0 is no longer the same, what if we can't use it?
Hi, I followed the tutorial but my portal is very non-smoke like and the particles are coming off as spheres in the render and after the VDB from Particles in the Smoke Doptnet work. I'm on Houdini version 17.5.229. Any tips on making it more smoke like rather than all the tiny spheres shape? :)
I just finished the tutorial and I'm seeing the exact same thing. I spent a lot of time playing with values to try to fix this without any luck. I know the apprentice version of Houdini limits render to 1280x720, does this limit also apply to the viewport? Is this the reason why it looks so ugly compared to the tutorial?
@@TheFlukeism Erm not too sure about the whole rendering limitations, but I'm pretty sure it's because of the amount of particles is too low for a sharp looking enough smoke portal (correct me if I am wrong!). You can try going to your Curve Particle popnet > source first input > birth tab > increase your impulse count to maybe a 100000. It's denser for me now but I will fix the final look in comp.
Increasing the particle amount was one of the first things I tried without much luck in making it look like what I see in the tutorial. I'm also struggling with applying the pyro fireball shader for render, I can't get the fire color ramp to display any color. Let me know if you manage to get a good final render result. This tutorial has been awesome, I have learned a lot and I've probably spent about 15 hours on it now. I would really like to finish it with a nice looking final render but I feel like I'm missing a few key pieces of information.
I managed to get the cloud to look pretty decent. I did this by tweaking settings in the popnet, I think I was getting problems due to the file caches. I had them bypassed and had load to disk turned off but it wasn't until I wiped and made new caches that I saw the good results. Now just to need to figure out what's going on with this fireball shader and why I'm not seeing any color from my temperature.
@@TheFlukeism Hm, I've alr bypassed all my file caches and they still look..spherical like so... :(
Loool the rubber toy jajajajaja
Glad you liked it, lol
Muchas gracias
De nada :)
Hi, I want to ask if I spent $5, and I unlock [ Lightning HDA Installation and Usage Guide], means I will get Lightning HDA file, or this just a [Installation and Usage Guide]?
Hey, why my portal looks very thin?
In the houdini 17.5 there is no longer the node lightning in the bases, Any suggestions?
Hi, the lightning node is a Houdini digital asset that I created for Patreon. Unfortunately, It is not a default Houdini asset.
I understand none of this. It just looks cooooool
46:10 Where lightning_no_bases ?
How did I find out?
I didn't find it either
I also can't find it in 2021
What graphics card do you have? This renders so much better on your machine haha.
great work bro....
bro what is your system specification???
@ 45:18 on the VEXpression I'm getting an error with the "fit" function "/obj/lightning/attribwrangle1/attribvop1/snippet1: No matching function for float" can anyone help? i have it typed the same as he does
me,too
Did you solve the problem?
Me too. Any advance on this case?