Houdini Fluid Test Particle Surface

Tweaked the simulation slightly and increased the particle count over the last simulation, i then surfaced the particles to create this. Simulation time took over a day however i think this can be tweaked by reducing the particle count and optimizing the collision geometry better. The 'overflow' at the lid can also be removed with a sink and wont be noticeable in the final animation.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Houdini
• fluids
• water
• bottle
• animation
• simulation
• 3d
• cgi
• Richard Potts
• mytheed
• particle

[jerkface37]

how do you get houdini to render into a video format? im just beginning to use software like this

[Jedipottsy]

@jerkface37 You dont render out videos, this video was a flipbook, which is a viewport video grab. When rendering out footage, you render out stills and put them together in a compositing application such as Nuke/Fusion/After effects. You can also stitch them together with Virtualdub.

[caveman357]

i am messing with houdini right now. It seems to be rendering slow. Just wondering what type of system do you have.

[Jedipottsy]

@caveman357 yeah houdini isnt terribly quick compared to realflow, you can speed up the results by using a collision mesh like i did. Houdini is a far more powerful solver however. I have 2 systems, a quad core intel with 8gb and a 6core amd with 4gb ram, both are about the same, but the 8gb ram deffo helps with simulations. Rendering varies depending on engine you use with mantra.

[erintherobot]

your cokes gonna lose all its fizz with you shaking it about like that!

[jerkface37]

@Jedipottsy Oh ok thank you so much i was getting a little bit frustrated. I looked up a lot of stuff but I never came up with an answer. I found a way to kinda render out a QuickTime video after I posted this but nothing to tell me what to do with the pics. Thank you so much I would probably be lost still w.o your help lol.

[chazfest]

Looks sweet!

[5p3nc3]

looking good man, nice job!