In Shot 05 we'll cover many stuff, some of them are related to :
- scene assembly
- scattering techniques
- Pyro FX
- destruction and secondary debris setup
- Vellum solver (plant dynamic)
- Advanced scene and lighting setup in Solaris/Karma
- Rendering techniques
- Compositing and Final Grading

In this lesson we'll start talking about the project we have to work on, and step by step we'll start playing with Houdini talking about workflow, naming convention, initial terrain creation and custom UI management.

In this lesson we'll move forward wth main terrain model. We'll focus on adding some nodes to generate the terrain details like distort, noise, erosion and flow field. We'll take a look at feature masking generation, network optimization and group management.

Finalizing terrain modeling adding export nodes and attributes cleaning, adding camera animation working on UI customization and curve editor, and preparing a new optimized layout scene setup using exported data.

In this lesson we have to move forward from "Layout/Modeling" phases to scene assembly and lighting, so it is time to start playing with Solaris and Karma. We'll take care about initial setup and general informations about USD scene description, importing stuff from obj/sop to stage layering.

In Lesson 05 we'll tak about COPs, the old compositing feature set we have in Houdini. We'll use it to pick the heighfield, extract it features and export some data to textures, or build a simple/basic color map.

In Lesson 06 we'll move forward with Terrain Look development. First of all we'll prepare a basic terrain material using MaterialX standard nodes mixing together the COPs textures prepared before with custom terrain maps.

In this lesson we'll take a look at look dev with Solaris. How we can add reference balls and the color table, how we can tweak the Solaris network to render terrain and ref assets separately, adding animation for models and light rig, creating a more complex light rig, etc etc

In this lesson we'll take a look at using the old COP network, (internal compositing tools), to prepare a basic slapcomp setup for our Terrain Lookdev test. We'll see how to import images, comp them, adding text, comment and scene data and how to export it to a sequence.

Scattering tools are really useful to accomplish many tasks in computer graphics. In Houdini we have many ways to use scattering to generate natural ecosystem. In this lesson we'll start talking about scattering techniques, trying to understand how it works and which is the best solution for Shot...

In this lesson we'll continue talking about scattering techniques. We'll see how to play with some initial scattering techniques inside an instancing node in Solaris, how to manage and manipulate point density, making distribution variation etc etc.

In this lesson we'll update the terrain material and light rig to be able checking materials in a better way, then we'll start working on tree materials and environment fog.

In this lesson we'll tweak the tree and grass scattering setup using heighfield/terrain features. Then we'll tweak a little bit the lighting setup to have a nice preview quality.

In Lesson 13 we'll use the scattering setup to add all plants, two diffrent instancing setups with variants.

In this lesson we are going to add a foggy cloud to the environment using cloud generation tools, tweaking various params, mixing two layers together with different setup and then tweaking it as standard volume to find the right look. Shading will be done using a Karma Pyro Material.

In Lesson 15 we'll try to use a setup similar to the foggy cloud to generate a complete cloud layer to cover entire sky, we'll tweak cloud look with cloud generation tools, Pyro material and using simple scattering techniques. We'll introduce the possibility to create custom UI params to control ...

In this lesson we'll prepare final camera animation and we'll tweak the Solaris network to work with diferent cameras, lighting setup, etc etc.

In this lesson we'll talk about some small shading tweaks, and then we'll go deeper talking about rendering setup related to AOVs, sampling and optimization.

In the 1st Shot 02 lesson we are going to prepare the scene layout picking the dinosaur animation cache, tweaking it, preparing the proxy environment, camera animation and slapcomp setup in COPs.

In this lesson we'll start prearing the Solaris scene setup to work on the dinosaur look dev, we'll take care about importing assets, creating new cameras, working on dinosaur static/animated/360 setup with custom UI, etc etc

In this lesson we'll start working on dinosaur materials using MtlX shaders with Karma, we'll use the textures received with the dino assets trying to figure out how to obtain best results with the stuff we have working on custom color correction, image manipulation, additional procedural layers,...

In Part 2 we'll finalize all materials to achieve final dinosaur look dev.

In this lesson we'll fix a noise UV coords issue playing with rest attribute and tweaking shader setup, then we'll prepare the slapcomp network in COP

In this lesson we'll start preparing the light scene using the Lookdev Solaris setup and adding the water and environment proxy meshes, we'll prepare the underwater volume and all needed shaders, then we'll prepar a simple setup to simulate wetmap on the dinosaur' skin based on the animated water...

In this lesson we'll make some tweaks to the wet map solver to give us the possibility to have wet map attribute under the water line too, then we'll start preparing the initial FLIP fluid setup at SOP level.

In this lesson we'll focus on SOP Flip setup playing with solver parameters, adding forces to control waves etc etc

In Lesson 09 we'll move forward with the FLIP solver preparing all parameters and trying to understand how meshing can works, everything will be ready to move to next task the whitewater setup.

In this lesson we'll tweak some simulation parameters to be able to move data to whitewater. We'll see some initial features related to tweaking ww source and then preparing its solver to cache an initial foam simulation.

In this lesson we'll take care about finalizing whitewater playing with erosion, repellants, and some additional params to find best compromise between simulation speed, quality and memory usage.

In Lesson 12, we'll take care about Whitewater exporting to Solaris to be rendered, same for fluid mesh, so we'll prepare a temp Karma setup for all layers to see if everything is working fine before moving FX layer to lighting scene.