 Howdy guys. All right, so let's get started with our wood planks procedural pattern Okay, so first thing that I always do whenever I start a new Houdini project is I create a folder On my desktop or wherever I want on my hard drive And inside of that what I'll do is I'll go and create a folder that is going to contain the Houdini project Now I highly recommend using Houdini projects Because it'll allow you to take all of your assets that you create inside of that project all the HDAs all the textures all the Exported geometry all your hip files It allows you to package it up nicely and send it off to somebody else so they can Use it all right without having to worry about dependencies This is especially important when you start dealing with things like HDAs or Houdini digital assets Okay, so I created a folder called wood planks project and inside of this folder I want to create a couple more folders. I'm going to create a geofolder and I'm going to create an HDA folder And we should rename that appropriately there we go HDA and What I want to do is I want to create another folder called text for textures All right. Now you might be wondering if you have been using Houdini at all Why I'm going in just manually creating as well. I found that the Houdini project helper tool inside of Houdini So if you go into Houdini over here They have this new project. I find it's a little bit cumbersome to work with and honestly I really just use this geofolder HDA folder and text folder mostly And so it's a lot faster for me to go and just create my own folder structure Because then what I can do is I can come into Houdini over here and I can just you know Go and hook this up by hitting this set project So open up Houdini and let's set our project to that folder. All right, so Inside of a Houdini procedural patterns select your new folder that you created All right hit accept and now we've got our Project hooked up now you know this because if you look down here It says job dollar job is set to this path. And that's exactly where I put that folder You can also come up to the edit up here and go to aliases and variables And if you go to variables you can see that job or that global variable. All right, it's set to that path All right, so this means that whenever that we want to go and open up something new inside of the open Window here. We can always select this dollar job folder right here and it takes us directly to our project So you can see it's really Advantageous to create projects this way. Well, I at least think it's faster just to do that You're still more than welcome obviously to you know it use the set project feature up here Okay, so with that we are now set up with our project. So let's get started modeling our wood planks