Houdini – Creating an Infection Effect Tutorial

[Instructor] Fabricio Chamon

In this tutorial, Fabricio Chamon demonstrates how to create a fully controllable infection effect using the Solver SOP and VEX in Houdini.

Topics covered include:

• Intro video
• Defining starting points
• Creating the solver (Solver SOP)
• Solver VEX code (simple)
• Painting a contamination threshold map
• Improving the VEX code to use maps
• Adding noise to the input map
• Adding Blur and Edge Detection to the infected points
• Adding another method for defining Initial grow
• Utilizing texture maps as contamination multipliers
• Adding speed controls
• Creating the Digital Asset
• Example uses for the tool

Tutorial:

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