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

Price

Free

Category
Grains, Houdini, Vellum