Smoke Ship continued I

This is a different take on the smoke ship project. I dropped renderman, and particle systems to simplify the pipeline.

I brought the softbody simulation back in which was already cached on the disk before and hooked it up to an isooffset node under S...

Houdini scad Renderman HDR pipeline Modelling isooffset Mantra pop softbody cache depth map sop volume smoke
Atmospheric anomaly II

Geometry is imported for each particle system cache. Houdini’s sprite node that is in the POP network doesn’t really function for prman. So I had to copy little circular grids on particles with template point attributes. I had to make sure that the grids would face the camera at all times, so while...

Houdini scad scripting Renderman rsl shader Modelling prman pop sprite smoke add normal vex
Atmospheric anomaly I

The effect I am trying to mimic is from Fellowship of The Ring. Specifically the smoke ship Gandalf character creates while smoking a pipe.

I am using Houdini to build the geometry for the effect, which was a challenge at the beginning since although I have been using Houdini over 7 months now I...

Houdini scad scripting Renderman Modelling prman pop rop softbody attractor bgeo dop drag noise procedural reverse smoke softlimit trail wind