Free Houdini Software Tutorial – Houdini Tech Art – Vertex Density Heatmap

This course is a Houdini Only course. In this course you will learn how to create a Vertex Density Heatmap, which is a simple tool to visualize the Vertex Count of a mesh, and can be used to help optimize a mesh, or for motion design purposes.

This course is a great way to get started with Houdini, and get started as a Technical Artist. Everything done here will achievable with Houdini Apprentice which is totally free.

We will cover a lot of aspect of Houdini, and I’ll try my best to explain everything used to achieve the tool.

Covered topics : 

• What’s is a context ? ( SOP, VOP, Scene…)

• What’s an attribute ?

• Basic VOP

• Example of more advanced VEX

• Attribute promotion

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Who this course is for:

• You’d like to learn Houdini while doing something useful
• You’re a tech artist who want to add Houdini to you arsenal
• You want to become a Technical Artist, and want to start with Houdini