Toothbrush - 15 Houdini FX Mantra Shader for the Glass and the Floor

Описание: In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate and add Materials to the floor and Glass object in your Houdini scene. Also, we will discuss how to organize your materials in their own encapsulated networks and how to deal with transparent and refractive Shaders. Besides that, you will get many tips & tricks for working with the IPR and the Material Palette.

These topics are covered:

Camera Placement
Adding a floor
Encapsulating Materials
Material Networks
Understanding the Material Palette
Material Presets
Principled Shader & Mantra Shaders (Classic Shader)
IRP Rendering
Debugging Mantra Shaders
Adjusting Material Parameters
Render Region Feature in IPR
Using relative Material Paths
Avoiding problem with Glass
sideFX Labs Axis Align
Glass in a Principled Shader
Roughness / IOR
Tinting the glass
Raylimits in Mantra
Refraction Limit

This tutorial series „Houdini Practice Hour“ is meant for newbies in Houdini FX, who want to learn the basic tasks of modeling, uvs, shading, lighting and rendering on a project base in Houdini FX. I will explain you step by step the workflows and tools, so you can follow along and then experiment to deepen your knowledge. Learning means „getting your hands dirty“. This series doesn’t give you the most effective, elegant or the "only right way", it’s concepted to give you a solid learning experience. If you are searching for a complete introduction into the fundamentals of Houdini FX, you can take a look here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/houdinifxf...

Helge Maus teaches 3D- & VFX Applications for 20 years. His focus lies on VFX, but he also works with many studios and agencies from different visualization areas.

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