Reference

Subtopics

Expression functions

Expression functions let you compute the value of parameters.
Expression cookbook

Tips and tricks for writing expressions to accomplish various effects.
Python Scripting

How to script Houdini using Python and the Houdini Object Model.
VEX

VEX - это высокопроизводительный язык выражений, используемый во многих местах в Houdini, например, для написания шейдеров.
HScript commands

HScript is Houdini’s legacy scripting language.

Starting Houdini from the command line
Stand-alone utilities

Houdini includes a large number of useful command-line utility programs.

Что нового в Houdini 16.5

New features and changes in Houdini 16.5.
Основы

The basics of working with Houdini’s user interface.
Shelf tools

How to use and customize the icons on the shelf at the top of the main window.
Сети и параметры

How to use the network and parameter editors to work in Houdini.
Примеры

Example files showing how different nodes work.
How to use the help

How to use the online help and document your own tools.

Геометрия

How Houdini represents geometry and how to create and edit it.
Копирование и instancing

How to use copies (real geometry) and instances (loaded or created at render time).
Анимация

How to create and keyframe animation in Houdini.
Персонаж

How to rig and animate characters in Houdini.
Рендеринг

How to render images and animation from the 3D scene.
Материалы

How to assign materials and create custom materials for shading.
Композитинг

Houdini’s compositing networks let you create and manipulate images such as renders.
Цифровые ассеты (Digital Assets)

Digital assets let you create reusable nodes and tools from existing networks.
Импорт и экспорт

How to get scene, object, and other data in and out of Houdini.
Просмотрщик изображений MPlay

Using Houdini’s stand-alone image viewer.

Частицы (Particles)

How to create particle simulations.
Динамика (Dynamics)

How to use Houdini’s dynamics networks to create simulations.
Пиротехника (Pyro)

How to simulate smoke, fire, and explosions.
Жидкости (Fluids)

How to set up fluid and ocean simulations.
Сыпучие симуляции (Grains)

How to simulate grainy materials (such as sand).
Толпа (Crowd)

How to create and simulate crowds of characters in Houdini.
Волосы и Шерсть (Hair and Fur)

Как создавать прически, и добавлять динамику волосам и шерсти.
Деформирующиеся объекты (FEM)

How to create and simulate deformable objects
Ткань (Cloth)

How to create and simulate cloth and other flexible materials.

Ноды объектов (OBJ)

Object nodes represent objects in the scene, such as character parts, geometry objects, lights, cameras, and so on.
Ноды геометрии (SOP)

Geometry nodes live inside Geo objects and generate geometry.
Ноды динамики (DOP)

Dynamics nodes set up the conditions and rules for dynamics simulations.
Ноды визуального программирования на языке VEX (VOP)
Ноды рендеринга (ROP)

Render nodes either render the scene or set up render dependency networks.
Ноды анимационных каналов (CHOP)

Channel nodes create, filter, and manipulate channel data.
Ноды композитинга (COP)

Composite nodes create, filter, and manipulate image data.

Меню

Explains each of the items in the main menus.
Панели просмотра

Viewer pane types.
Панели

Documents the options in various panes.
Окна

Documents the options in various user interface windows.
Автономные утилиты в комплекте с Houdini

Houdini includes a large number of useful command-line utility programs.
Написание скриптов на Python

How to script Houdini using Python and the Houdini Object Model.
Функции выражений

Expression functions let you compute the value of parameters.
Команды языка HScript

HScript is Houdini’s legacy scripting language.
Язык VEX

VEX - это высокопроизводительный язык выражений, используемый во многих местах в Houdini, например, для написания шейдеров.
Свойства

Properties let you set up flexible and powerful hierarchies of rendering, shading, lighting, and camera parameters.
Python панели

You can script custom pane types using Python to create your own UIs.
Галереи

Pre-made materials included with Houdini.