Vehicle Modeling in Houdini 16.5 – SciFi Dropship

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Dropship Demo

Chapter 2: Getting setup in Houdini 16.5

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating Houdini Projects

Lecture 3: Setting up the Orthgraphic Grid Graph

Lecture 4: Assigning Materials to the Orthographic Grids

Lecture 5: Creating a Houdini Digital Asset for the Orthographic Grids

Lecture 6: Exploring HDA Properties – Bonus Video!

Chapter 3: Blocking in the Dropship

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Blocking – Part 1

Lecture 3: Blocking – Part 2

Lecture 4: Blocking – Part 3

Lecture 5: Creating a Mirror and Clip HDA

Chapter 4: Blockin in the Top of the Dropship

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Major Shapes – Part 1

Lecture 3: Major Shapes – Part 2

Lecture 4: Blocking in the Engine Mounts

Chapter 5: Blocking in the Engines

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Major Shapes – Part 1

Lecture 3: Major Shapes – Part 2

Lecture 4: Using Booleans for Complex Shapes

Lecture 5: Placing the Engines

Lecture 6: Copying to Points

Chapter 6: Blocking in the Landing Gear

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating the Main Strut

Lecture 3: Creating the Pivot Widget

Lecture 4: Creating the Suspension Arms

Lecture 5: Completing the Suspension Arms

Lecture 6: Creating the Foot

Lecture 7: Creating an HDA to Handle Cable Creation

Lecture 8: Cable Creation – Part 2

Chapter 7: Detailing the Lower Body

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Adding Panel Lines with Booleans

Lecture 3: Panel Lines – Part 2

Lecture 4: Panel Lines – Part 3

Lecture 5: Compound Booleans

Lecture 6: VDB's and Smoothing

Chapter 8: Detailing the Upper Body

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating the Cockpit

Lecture 3: Detailing Continued

Lecture 4: Creating Sci-Fi Piping

Lecture 5: Sci-Fi Piping HDA

Lecture 6: Procedural Piping

Lecture 7: Creating Sci-Fi Widgets and Placement

Chapter 9: Detailing the Engine

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Outer Casing – Part 1

Lecture 3: Jets – Part 1

Lecture 4: Jets – Part 2

Lecture 5: Engine Mounts

Chapter 10: Retopology in Houdini

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Understanding the TopoBuild Node – Part 1

Lecture 3: Understanding the TopoBuild Node – Part 2

Lecture 4: Re-using Topology

Lecture 5: Jet Engine Re-Topo

Lecture 6: Final Results

Chapter 11: UV's in Houdini

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Using the UV Flatten Node – Part 1

Lecture 3: Using the UV Flatten Node – Part 2

Lecture 4: Layout and Packing

Lecture 5: Automatic UV's

Chapter 12: Setting up Vertex Colors for Texturing

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Grouping Primitives by Material Type

Lecture 3: Assigning Vertex Colors

Lecture 4: Exporting to FBX and OBJ

Chapter 13: Assembling the Dropship in Unity 3D 2018

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Importing te Geometry

Lecture 3: Creating Materials in Unity 3D

Lecture 4: Terrain Overview

Lecture 5: Working with the Post Processing Stack in Unity 3D

Chapter 14: Assembling the Dropship in Unreal

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Importing the Geometry

Lecture 3: Creating the Materials in Unreal

Lecture 4: Working with the Post Processing Volume in Unreal