Bubble Pins shows how to create a destruction scene with Shelf Tools and breaks down how they all work.

Houdini shelf tools are a great way to get started with a series of events quickly. Using the Houdini Shelf tools, you can easily set up a destruction scene with a fracture, debris, and some other things too. Have you ever wondered what the shelf tools create? Check out this new tutorial from Bubble Pins that walks through whats happening.

“This video demonstrates how to quickly set up a destruction scene that fractures a geometry, has debris particles, and contains dust from the pyro smoke simulation, as part of the visual destruction effect.” All done using Houdini’s Shelf. Part two shows how to create the dust field on impact.