Maya to Houdini Conversion Course: Part 2c - collisions, how to playblast in Houdini

In this lesson Maya to Houdini conversion course you will be able to start creating particle collisions, adjusting colours, creating different instances of geometry onto your particle simulation and quickly and easily preview them in Houdini’s equivalent of a playblast.

Maya to Houdini Conversion Course: Part 2c – collisions, how to playblast in Houdini

In lesson 2c you will learn

collisions
- how to set up a collision POP
- adjusting collision attributes
Creating instanced Geometry
- Use a Copy SOP to set up instancing
- How to wire any geometry and particle simulation into a Copy SOP
Colouring Particles
Setting up a Playblast
- a playblast is called a Flipbook
- How to set Flipbook parameters
- How to use the Flipbook viewer
  - The MPlayer is the equivalent of FCheck
  - What MPlayer can do that FCheck can’t

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Why I created the Maya to Houdini Conversion Course?

I’ve been working as a VFX artist for over ten years, one of the most common questions people ask when moving across from Maya to Houdini is ‘how do I do xxxxxxx in Houdini, it’s so easy in Maya, but I can’t find the function in Houdini’.

Well the fact is that every software is different, not only do the functions have different names but different 3D software is built upon a whole architecture. To shift from Maya to Houdini requires to understand how the two pieces of software were built upon different architecture.