Intro To Houdini Volumes - Beginner Course

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Volumes & Voxels
We start by exploring what volumes and voxels are, and how they work in the context of Houdini.

Volume VOPS
Similar to how we can manipulate points with VOPS, we can use the same techniques for volumes. There are some crucial differences however between regular geometry and volumes and in this series we talk all about it.

Distance Volumes
Distance volumes (or SDFs) are a different type of volume that measure distance to a surface. This is a very powerful class of volumes that allow us to further control simulations and also create cool organic type of geometry and even animations as well.

Velocity Fields
One of the main ways to achieve a variety of magical FX is with velocity fields. In this series we talk about what velocity fields are and also create a few velocity fields and use them to drive particles.

Downloads
In the downloads lesson I’ve included the HIP file where I built all of the examples from the course. If you want to explore this file you can download it.

► Chapters:

00:00:00 - 00:08:52 : Volumes & Voxels
00:08:52 - 00:12:31 : VDB vs Standard Volume
00:12:31 - 00:16:54 : SDF Distance Volume
00:16:54 - 00:25:31 : Volume VOP
00:25:31 - 00:37:39 : Fog Volume VOP examples
00:37:39 - 00:43:56 : Multiple Volumes
00:43:56 - 00:55:18 : Volume Visualization
00:55:18 - 01:02:25 : VOPS with SDF
01:02:25 - 01:07:21 : Working with SDF
01:07:21 - 01:18:44 : SDF VOP Examples
01:18:44 - 01:30:00 : Velocity Field
01:30:00 - 01:38:21 : Velocity Field VOP Examples
01:38:21 - 01:58:28 : Custom Velocity Field
01:58:28 - 02:07:23 : SDF From Particles
02:07:23 - 02:17:10 : Volume Rasterize Attributes

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[KevinKahwaty]

Hello! I have been following your tutorials and have been learning a lot. I ran into an issue with this one though, my volume trail is not oriented along my curve. When you add the polyframe node at 1:44:16, I am doing the same but when I go to visualize it and nothing is happening. This is leading to my main issue where when I get up to adding the volume trail I am either seeing nothing with the node tree that you have set up. I added some "orient along curves" nodes before my polyframe and before the sweep node. This allowed the volumetrail node to actually show me something but the trail is random and primarily perpendicular to the curve, not flowing with it.
Do you have any tips or would it be possible to send you my hip file?
Please let me know if you can help me fix this. Thank you in advance!

[DesignedbyRoyce]

good evening sir, how can i get the houdini sops basics that explains every nodes in sops

[parasjain]

I'm done with VOPS so what's next? Shall I start volumes course or watch other tutorials? If yes which one?