Houdini 19.5, UE5 – Procedural Stylized Pencil Case(s) + RBD

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Creating procedural pencil with RBD support

Lecture 1: Creating base shape

Lecture 2: Creating wood and tip

Lecture 3: Closing bottom hole, modifying base shape

Lecture 4: Creating groups

Lecture 5: Adding shaving effect

Lecture 6: Polishing shaving effect

Lecture 7: Finishing tip

Lecture 8: Adding bottom circle (pencil lead part)

Lecture 9: Fixing bottom circle open hole

Lecture 10: Polish base shape (get rid of harsh edges)

Lecture 11: Organizing node graph

Lecture 12: Adding vertex color

Lecture 13: Rigid Body: preparation

Lecture 14: Rigid Body preparation: making pencil as a single mesh

Lecture 15: Creating Rigid Body Simulation

Lecture 16: Rigid body: dynamically place pencil on top of any input geometry

Lecture 17: Finalize: creating normals

Lecture 18: Finalize: additional cleaning

Lecture 19: Finalize: creating collision group

Lecture 20: Finalize: creating Nanite attribute

Lecture 21: Finalize: creating LODs

Lecture 22: Finalize: creating LOD Screen Size

Lecture 23: Finalize: organize graph

Lecture 24: HDA: Creating HDA

Lecture 25: HDA: creating shape parameters

Lecture 26: HDA: controlling parameter(s) visibility with "hide when" parameter option

Lecture 27: HDA: creating color parameters

Lecture 28: HDA: creating nanite parameter

Lecture 29: HDA: adding simulation parameters

Lecture 30: Unreal Engine: creating project

Lecture 31: Unreal Engine: testing HDA

Lecture 32: Unreal Engine: enabling Nanite and LODs

Lecture 33: End of the Section

Chapter 2: Creating pencil case and adding RBD simulation to pencils

Lecture 1: Creating Pencil Case Part 1

Lecture 2: Creating Pencil Case Part 2

Lecture 3: Adding Vertex Colors, Unreal Attributes, Collision Group, Low Poly

Lecture 4: Creating Case HDA

Lecture 5: Case HDA – part 1

Lecture 6: Case HDA – creating parameters – part 2

Lecture 7: Case HDA – creating parameters – part 3 (controlling UI with toggles)

Lecture 8: Preparation for scattering pencils within the case bounds

Lecture 9: Creating For Each Loop with For Each Metadata node

Lecture 10: Copying (scattering) pencils inside case shape

Lecture 11: Creating randomization controller (Null node)

Lecture 12: Randomizing pencils/case colors/etc

Lecture 13: Adding RBD and fixing attributes mismatch on Merge

Lecture 14: Sped up RBD simulation

Lecture 15: Clean up, normals and collision group

Lecture 16: Creating group LODs and lodx_screensize attributes

Lecture 17: Organizing node graph

Lecture 18: Pencil case HDA – creating parameters – part 1

Lecture 19: Pencil case HDA – creating parameters and testing – part 2

Lecture 20: Testing Pencil Case HDA in Unreal Engine 5 and creating two variations

Chapter 3: Scattering pencils cases with pencils RBD simulation

Lecture 1: Preparation: creating scatter area bounds

Lecture 2: Creating For Each Loop

Lecture 3: Creating Debug Plane

Lecture 4: Creating randomization controller (Null node)

Lecture 5: For each loop: randomizing pencils (shape, shaving, etc.)

Lecture 6: For each loop: randomizing case shape (height, radius)

Lecture 7: For each loop: randomizing case channel ramp shape

Lecture 8: For each loop: randomizing colors (pencils and cases)

Lecture 9: Creating Rigid Body simulation

Lecture 10: RBD: troubleshooting (when object passing through geometry)

Lecture 11: Cleaning attributes, etc

Lecture 12: Creating LODs

Lecture 13: Creating HDA parameters

Lecture 14: Testing inside Unreal Engine

Lecture 15: Creating a scene for renders (timelapse)