Houdini School – HS-225 Procedural Growth with KineFX and the Labs Tree Tools

Duration 5h 30m MP4

Title: Houdini School – HS-225 Procedural Growth with KineFX and the Labs Tree Tools

Info:
Class Description:
This recorded course will cover how to design and animate procedural trees using the Labs Tree Tool, a free add-on offered by SideFX. The data output from the Labs Tree Tool will be used to generate a KineFX rig that will then be animated to create simple growth and wind effects. Later on, we will dive into the labs tree tools and explore how we can alter the internal functionality for even more flexibility.

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this course, students will come away with the knowledge needed to build, rig, animate, and render fully procedural trees in SOPs using KineFX and the Labs Tree Tools. We will build an easy-to-use Vex transition preset and dive deep into the world of manipulating transformation matrices with Vex. In addition to this, students will have a solid starting example project that can be adapted into endlessly customizable procedural tree growths.

1. Introduction

2. Labs Tree Tools

3. Tree Controller

4. Tree Trunk Generator

5. Tree Branch Generator