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Crowds in Houdini 15

By Andreas Giesen
In this course, we will learn how to setup a complex crowd simulation in Houdini with ragdoll effects. Software required: Houdini 15.
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Rating
(15)
Level
Advanced
Updated
Jan 29, 2016
Duration
4h 9m
Table of contents
Introduction and Project Overview
Introduction and Project Overview 1m
Crowds in Houdini 15
Character Setup for Crowds 12m Baking the Agents and the Animations as Clips 4m Scene Overview and Setup 9m Creating Procedural Placement of the Boats 12m Additional Animation for the Boats 4m Setting up the Agents Using Crowd Source 12m Creating the Crowd Simulation Network 10m Moving the Agents with the Boats 9m Discovering Steer Forces 11m Creating a Third State 4m Optimizing the Performance 7m Setting up Obstacles 8m Creating the Taking Cover Behavior 10m Switching to the Crouch State 12m Setting up a Custom Life Attribute 12m Freezing the Animation Within a State 8m Adding Ragdoll Effects 13m Breaking Constrains of the Ragdoll Agents 11m Inheriting the Velocity 15m Setting up the Defenders 7m Creating the Grenade Throw Behavior 11m Adding Procedural Explosions 9m Using the Explosion to Trigger the Ragdoll Effects 11m Finalizing the Ragdoll Explosions 8m Reviewing All Agents and Some Final Tweaks 8m Using Stylesheets for More Variety 12m
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Course info
Rating
(15)
Level
Advanced
Updated
Jan 29, 2016
Duration
4h 9m
Description

In this course we, will learn how to setup a complex crowd simulation in Houdini with ragdoll effects. We will begin with setting up our agents and begin to use custom animations. Along the way we will create several behaviors for our crowd and setup states, triggers, and transitions. By the end of this course, you will have a fully working crowd scene with hundreds of agents, ragdoll effects, and customizations at render time using stylesheets. Software required: Houdini 15.

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Andreas Giesen
About the author

Today, Andreas works as a FX Supervisor at RISE | Visual Effects Studios in Berlin and is managing FX teams on shows like Captain America: Civil War. Andreas also works as a visual effects instructor at different film schools in Berlin.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Introduction and Project Overview
(instrumental music) Hello, my name is Andreas Glesen and I'm working as a FX Technical Director at RISE Visual Effects Studios. My latest projects include Captain America Two, Iron Man Three, and other feature films. In this course, we are taking a look at the Houdini Crowd Tools, which were introduced with Houdini 14, and enhanced with interesting features like Ragdolls and other improvements in Houdini 15. In their current state, they provide huge possibilities to set up large scale crowd simulations with thousands of agents. We will learn how to prepare our characters for being used in crowd simulations, populate our scenario, and define routes for our agents, like avoiding obstacles or search for cover under heavy fire. Also, we will take a look at the newly introduced (mumbles) effects to add some more interesting dynamics. In the end, we will have a working crowd simulation with hundreds of agents, and we will use Stylesheets to add even more variety at render time. I'm excited to work with you on this fresh and interesting topic, so let's get started with the first lesson. (instrumental music)

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