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Introduction to Python in Houdini

By September 9, 2015No Comments

Houdini is an amazing procedural tool that lets you do some pretty incredible things. There are actually a few ways to “script” things in Houdini. If it is difficult to create something with nodes, you can use VEX, or even Python.

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Here, Ruben Mayor, Senior FX TD at Sony Pictures Imageworks shows how to use Python in Houdini to create a sine wave that will disport and animate an object in the viewport. This is a great starting point if you are familiar with Python already, and want to know how to implement in Side FX Houdini.

lesterbanks

3D, VFX, design, and typography. Twenty year veteran instructor in all things computer graphics.