Eldad Sery | Node Nuggets - Houdini Tips

Houdini #NodeNuggets - Navigating node hierarchy

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Super excited to share that I’ll be giving a talk next week at SideFX's HiveAI event in London. It’s a big milestone for me in my Houdini journey. I’ll be talking about procedural and AI workflow... Super excited to share that I’ll be giving a talk next week at SideFX's HiveAI event in London. It’s a big milestone for me in my Houdini journey. I’ll be talking about procedural and AI workflows, i...

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Testing AI for creation, model, rig, animation (unreal)

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Node network of this example

Useful HF nodes worth playing with:
HF
HF_noise
HF_terrace
HF_flatten
HF_blur
HF_maskbyfeature
HF_maskbyobject
HF_drawmask
HF_maskblur
HF_maskclear
HF_scatter

Quick Houdini tip:

HeightField Terrace = instant stepped terrain.

Play with step size + smoothing to get plateaus or sharp cliffs.

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A cute Scruffy I sculpted 👨‍🔧 Part of my Futurama fanart chess set.
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Cool

Merge shapes into one smooth form?
Use VDB Combine in Houdini. It fuses volumes and blends edges into a single soft surface, great for clouds, rocks, or organic modeling.

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A simple way to get the copies to face the curve direction.

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cool sample from wikipedia and many more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi...

Set up a simple Voronoi fracture in Houdini:

Start with a grid or any model, scatter few points, the Voronoi node splits the grid into natural cell-like patterns.

This method can be used to mimic cracks in mud or even the patterns on a giraffe’s skin 🦒

Dear algorithm, connect me with people into:

- Houdini, Houdini engine, HDA

- Unreal engine / UEFN

- Procedural tools & pipelines

- Game art & tech art

- AI in 3D

- ComfyUI

- Teaching & mentoring

Bonus points if you share work in public 👀

Amazing tool!

That's just amazing

#houdini #nodenuggets #3dtips | Eldad Sery Cool Houdini trick to scatter objects in patches: "attribute from pieces" #Houdini #nodenuggets #3dtips

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Cool Houdini trick to scatter objects in patches: "attribute from pieces"
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Has anyone here tried selling or using Houdini Engine tools (HDA) in Unreal Fab? Wondering if setup is easy and if Unreal folks who don’t touch Houdini are aware of these tools.
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There's something beautiful in patterns coming from heightfields....

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MPM

Procedural tip:
Don’t model one rock, create a system that can make 100's variations.

Think rules and system, not one.
Then scatter points → randomize scale/rotation → instance assets.

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Press R to toggle Render/Display flags.
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MeshBlend is finally here! 🥳

So proud to finally release what I've been working on for 16 months!

MeshBlend brings next generation blending to Unreal. Easy to use, fast and great quality!

Available on Fab for #UE5 now!
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amazing work

MeshBlend is just beautiful ...

great reference