Upgrades and Effects Research

• Upgrades and effects research 

After last week, I was personally proud of how far our team came. That same day I started to reference everyone's assets into our master file and organized our versions a little bit, I also made it clear the team that with the naming conventions for their assets needs to say the same and done update each one as a new name because it will ruin the reference. This week I started adding more on my website like me Linken, my portfolio and my resume just to keep everything together. Another thing that I did is I updated the tea set model by taking some of the cups away and adding a try that we can use later in the film. The final thing I did was I started doing some research of what affects I'm doing in Houdini and how to do them, I currently working on my research for falling leaves which has overall done well.This is what I got so far

Research on Houdini Effects

Falling leaves animation

1. Houdini Tutorial | Autumn Leaves Vellum Danse - Bing video

2. Fine a leaf jpeg that looks like the image in the video

3. Your leaf shape needs to be white

4. The background needs to be Black

5. Enter the Jpeg into a trace node

6. Have the threshold 0.011

7. Have Point Textures checked

8. Add a resample node to make the leaves less dense

9. Do a re-mesh to add tringles in the geometry

10. Add the mountain node which will bend the leaf

11. Have center nose checked

12. Height = 1.32

13. Element Size = 1.52

14. Scale 1 1 1

15. Pulse length 1

16. Noise

17. Noise type= Simplex

18. Fracular type= Hyberid tennin

19. Max Octives = 3

20. Lac 1.857

21. Roughness 0.477

22. Add a UV project node

23. Make sure to press Ininalize

24. Add a UV quick Shade Node

25. Add a Normals node

26. Set the angle to 23

27. Add transform Node

28. Drop it into a null and call in leaf 1

29. Add a group node(This is for later)

30. Note If you want color one get your texture and put it in the UV quick Shade

31. Make as many leaves as you want like this

32. Sim For the leaves

33. Start with a shere(or whatever shape you want)

34. Make it a polygon

35. Uniform scale 2.4

36. Frequency 5

37. Name the Object id

38. Next add a Attribute Randomizer node

39. Type = Float

40. Number of Values represents how many leaves you have starting from zero

41. Add the Point expression function in the input

42. On Houdini’s webside

43. Add a normal node

44. Orent(Not nessary)

45. Add a foreach node

46. Add all the leaf groups into a switch node

47. Add the Point expression function in the input

48. On Houdini’s webside

49. Add The switch node to a cop to points node