XSI To Houdini: Find Point Neighbours

In this tutorial I'm showing the Houdini version of "Get Closest Points". I'm talking about how to look for neighbours in a point cloud and either average out the values or loop though them to do a specific operation. I also talk briefly about the Houdini equivalent of Get/Set Data and Rescale.

If there are any particular ICE nodes that you would like to have a tutorials for, let me know.    

Follow up to XSI -> Houdini and locations

I got some questions after my XSI to Houdini tutorial about the closest location on a geometry from people that didn’t really understand how “xyzdist” could be the same thing as "get closest location" so I thought that I better do a follow up. The big difference is that in XSI a location is just one variable and in Houdini it’s 2 (the Primitive and the uv on that primitive). In XSI you use a ‘Get Data’ node to extract data from that location and in Houdini you use a ‘Primitive Attribute’. I hope that clear things up.

Houdini Quick Tip: Merge messes with your orientations

Just a quick tip about why and how to avoid that Houdini sometimes messes with your orientations when you are merging things together. Hope that you'll find it useful.

XSI to Houdini: Find the Closest Location

In this tutorial I'm showing the Houdini VOP version of Get Closest Location in XSI. 

First Blog Post!

Hi! I created this blog so I can have a place to post my VFX tutorials. It will cover Houdini mostly. As a short introduction, my name is Mikael Pettersén and I've worked with TV and feature film for the last 10 years. I find that a lot of the tutorials out there are waaaaay to slow so I will do my best to keep mine short and snappy. If you still find them too slow, let me know in the comments! If you want to see if I really know what I'm doing, feel free to check out my latest showreel.

Showreel 2016 from Mikael Pettersén on Vimeo.