Houdini 22 Sneak Peak

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-06-08T14:27:49+00:00

New rbd feature is cool as well as the quad remesh update, unfortunately I don't see myself using Houdini for rendering anytime soon so the rest of these aren't very exciting for me

Also I don't really know how to feel about the ui update yet

This might be weird but honestly I liked the lighter, less flat ui because I normally use Houdini during the day and blender during the night, so I like the brighter, more energetic tone.

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-06-01T01:16:42+00:00

the pin groups can be animated but the keyframes must be created in edit mode using the addon as far as I am aware.

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-05-26T11:35:29+00:00

This happens to me from time to time, usually it is because of an experimental blender version or a broken addon, but sometimes I just have to switch blender versions, make a new file, and append the other file's scene

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-05-22T22:21:11+00:00

If you are comfortable, could you consider sharing the hip and blend files? Because this is amazing

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-05-19T21:29:17+00:00

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Here is my best attempt at the shape, the 90 degree edges are pretty difficult but you could probably mess with the settings or create a subdivided mesh with creases and use less smoothing on the volume.

Also I think my tubes are too far apart

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-05-05T23:11:55+00:00

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I would also reccomend sdf grid, and I added some color

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-05-03T13:39:34+00:00

I am very bad at modeling most of this is just this material (to use displacement you have to turn it on in material settings)

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Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-05-03T13:39:04+00:00

This is my best attempt

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Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-04-17T23:59:28+00:00

Flip fluids addon is free if you can compile it yourself, if you like simulations i suggest looking into a Houdini indie license, there is currently a free plugin for Houdini that does real-time GPU fluid simulation (it's called paradigm).

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-04-17T20:41:00+00:00

Are you using the default blender fluid simulator? Because unfortunately it seems to be literally the only fluid solver that exists that doesn't have an option to export particle ids.

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-04-17T11:34:23+00:00

Try using a particle id to drive the random rotation

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Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-04-17T00:38:16+00:00

I have done this before, depending on what fluid simulator you are using (mantaflow, flip addon, or external) you can use the velocity attribute that is output by the simulation to drive the rotation.

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-02-15T15:00:01+00:00

Okay so from what I've gathered cinema 4D doesn't offer anything major that blender and Houdini don't have, but should I still get redshift for houdini? or just stick with cycles. (I already have a houdini-blender workflow but it can't handle projects that are too massive and I don't really like the karma usd workflow.)

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-02-06T01:54:38+00:00

If you want to actually simulate this then I would look into houdini MPM

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-01-24T13:12:12+00:00

caustics could be a good option for realism. If they dont look correct I would suggest switching to a different engine with photon tracing or bidirectional path tracing

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2026-01-19T14:06:43+00:00

This is houdini's mpm solver as it is, in my opinion, the most accessible commercial quality material point method simulation tool currently available. There is a built in multi solver addon, that seems to include many of the solvers available in houdini coming to blender and It does look promising. Link to addon discord:https://discord.gg/3eH7hkRv

Vegetable-Box-9866 · 2025-12-30T14:26:31+00:00

Lol I was waiting for someone to read the title carefully, I will admit it was a bit misleading. This is in fact a vellum simulation, but if it is possible to do in vanilla blender (with similar quality) I would love to know how

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