[Free] Houdini Tech Art - Vertex Density Heatmap

Start learning Houdini and make useful tool right away – Free Course

Added on September 1, 2024 Development 1 min read

What you’ll learn

• Learn who to use Houdini to create a Vertex Density Heatmap
• Understand the basis of Houdini and more (Attributes, Nodes, …)

Requirements

• Houdini 16.5+ (FREE apprentice version) – Houdini 17 Works too

Description

This course is a Houdini Only course. In this course you will learn how to create a Vertex Density Heatmap, which is a simple tool to visualize the Vertex Count of a mesh, and can be used to help optimize a mesh, or for motion design purposes.

This course is a great way to get started with Houdini, and get started as a Technical Artist. Everything done here will achievable with Houdini Apprentice which is totally free.

We will cover a lot of aspect of Houdini, and I’ll try my best to explain everything used to achieve the tool.

Covered topics : 

• What’s is a context ? ( SOP, VOP, Scene…)

• What’s an attribute ?

• Basic VOP

• Example of more advanced VEX

• Attribute promotion

Thanks !

Author(s): Alexandre Stroukoff