Introduction to Vellum Grains

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Vellum to simulate grain in SideFX Houdini. Our first step will be to set up a basic grains setup and go over the most important parameters for art-directing grain simulations.

Tutorial Level – Beginner

Content

• 00:00 – Introduction
• 01:22 – Turn objects into grains using Vellum configure grains
• 03:43 – Grains setup with the Vellum Source node
• 08:58 – Vellum Solver settings for grains: Substeps
• 13:16 – Velocity Damping 14:06 – Friction
• 15:31 – Attraction Weight
• 16:20 – Search Scale
• 19:05 – Art-directing grains using physical attributes
• 22:45 – Adding glue constraints to grain simulations
• 26:00 – Art-directing grains using glue constraints
• 28:53 – Grain soft bodies
• 30:26 – Announcements of future lessons
• 31:10 – Outro