Morph Objects into Other Objects in Houdini

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Morphing objects into other objects can come in handy for certain animations. Today we go over how to do this in particles as well as with geometry.
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@chaseaveta1175 Жыл бұрын

You could also use the first method of morphing points of two objects, and then convert that to polygons. This might allow you to have more interesting effects with the additional noise in the point vop node.

@zninghe6345 Жыл бұрын

How to convert those points to polygons? Thank you!

@thibaultzvat7438 11 ай бұрын

@@zninghe6345 I guess, point to vdb > vdb to polygons

@JazzJustDGAF 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for making this video I have been searching for something like this

@ghisleri 2 жыл бұрын

A really fantastic tutorial, the effect is incredible and it has so many possibilities! THANK YOU VERY MUCH

@InsideTheMindSpace 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful!

@shubhamrai4850 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial your tutorial helped me a lot keep uploading videos

@graemepalmer2306 9 ай бұрын

Perfect, thanks for the tutorial!

@manvredo 2 жыл бұрын

I think it will be finished earlier because Houdini does not automatically do any linear animation, it has a curve, you would have to make the animation linear in the animation editor. Greets

@karantaleykt 3 жыл бұрын

Very Informative, Thanks

@theresajones1015 3 жыл бұрын

Incredibly helpful! Thank you

@InsideTheMindSpace 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to help.

@whippet_boy8594 2 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly simple. Really good tutorial. Thanks.

@InsideTheMindSpace 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help.

@asklapios 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much

@shark6334 3 жыл бұрын

thanks so much!

@nathanbayne3576 2 жыл бұрын

great explanation on this video, always grateful for your content as you pushed me into trying Houdini, now I'm more comfortable in Houdini than C4D haha

@InsideTheMindSpace 2 жыл бұрын

Thats awesome! Houdini is extremely powerful. Definitely worth the time it takes to learn

@patrickortman2659 2 жыл бұрын

It would be extra super cool to learn how to not only morph the geo between objects but also the textures. I haven't found anything online about this yet. Great video!

@InsideTheMindSpace 2 жыл бұрын

I've had multiple questions about this. No promises but I may look into it.

@patrickortman2659 2 жыл бұрын

@@InsideTheMindSpace a wise Houdini master told me this, but I don't know enough for it to make sense yet: i would add an attribute to the points. like 0 is sphere and box is 1. and then use that attribute to blend materials over at your render engine.

@InsideTheMindSpace 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah thats a relatively simple concept but in practice I don't believe it would work if you are using UV's. If you are using something like a triplanar protection that would work. Basically he is saying to add an attribute that's zero or one depending on the object. Then in your render engine set up a material for object one and two and use a blend material with the weight of that blend being set to that attribute. In my mind that doesn't work though for UVs because the geometry changes when you morph so the UVs wouldn't be accurate anymore. I could be wrong though. It's worth a shot. Hopefully my explanation makes a little more sense to you. If not feel free to jump in my discord and I can try to run you through it better

@patrickortman2659 2 жыл бұрын

@@InsideTheMindSpace Thanks!

@matteoforghieri 3 жыл бұрын

awsome tips, thx! could you show how to implement a c4d style falloff to drive the morph in both cases?

@InsideTheMindSpace 3 жыл бұрын

Thats a good question. Initial thought is to drive it with a ramp or a noise through the color but that would only work for the initiation of the effect. Something I will have to experiment with once I have time.

@XBen1X Жыл бұрын

is there a way to only morph half or certain area of an object or maybe even a water/liquid effect?

@tetianahurchenko8050 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video! It has been super helpful. Is it possible to keep morph them into more objects? Do I need to use a foreach loop to switch between objects that are pipped in to the second input of the solver?

@InsideTheMindSpace 2 жыл бұрын

You might be able to use a for each loop with a switch node to keep moving between objects or you could daisy chain set ups together

@tetianahurchenko8050 2 жыл бұрын

@@InsideTheMindSpace Thank you! Will try it out

@InsideTheMindSpace 2 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

@servo69 10 ай бұрын

This is sick but how do you add the rubber toy texures back on? transfer attributes isnt doing to great. edit:just saw your comment about trying this out soon

@InsideTheMindSpace 10 ай бұрын

I never ended up doing more with it but a thought you could try would be to take the uvs of the first object and the second object and lerp between them. Not sure if it would work or not

@glmstudiogh 11 ай бұрын

Will it be the same procedure morphing between objects that has animations on them? Say; I import and abc cars, both moving, I want to morph from car 1 to car 2

@canjb 2 жыл бұрын

so no texture to the morph?

@ivaniliev2272 2 жыл бұрын

thank you

@InsideTheMindSpace 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to help

@petewallace4376 3 жыл бұрын

Do you have any tips on how to maintain the topology and UVs?

@InsideTheMindSpace 3 жыл бұрын

I thought about this but never came up with a solution. Theoretically it might be possibly doing something like an attribute transfer or something but I haven't done anything myself testing wise. Easiest thing I can recommend is just using triplanar projections but that wouldn't work for something like characters. I believe when you see stuff like that its using a different technique.

@sheamotion724 3 жыл бұрын

@@InsideTheMindSpace kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p6eilLJjqpPaaGg.html point deform the solution, no?

@jeppejuel7720 10 ай бұрын

Hi this might be very late to the party - but morphing in the geometry version, the "lobsters" claws sort of detech and shrink into nothingness as the transformation takes place - is there a way to morph without that happening to make it even more seamlees :)?

@InsideTheMindSpace 10 ай бұрын

Probably. You can mask vdbs. I would look into that to control how the morph takes place

@pavinivfx 3 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to get particles and turn them into an object using this?

@InsideTheMindSpace 3 жыл бұрын

Not sure. You could copy spheres to points and that would work to turn it into an object

@Jordanc87 Жыл бұрын

would this work for alembic animations?

@InsideTheMindSpace Жыл бұрын

I believe it should

@madmodder 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff, so, for variety I want to morph between 3 objects, so 1st, to 2nd, to 3rd, then back to first, something that I can render out as a geometry cache and play on a loop in a game engine. Tried taking the output of the first morph solver, and use a second one to blend between that and my 3rd object, starting it from 0 at the frame the first morph is done, and my system is slowing to a crawl, and the results are kinda glitchy and poppy during the second morph. Anybody have any ideas how to approach that?

@InsideTheMindSpace 2 жыл бұрын

I would think your approach would work. Maybe try using a switch node as your inputs and when it fully morphs switching to the 3rd object and animating back to a zero percent morph. After that just do the same thing to get to get back to the initial object

@madmodder 2 жыл бұрын

@@InsideTheMindSpace Yeah that would probably help kinda "lock it in" when moving to the next transition. It's almost like it's recomputing the morphs that came before even if they're not really changing, so that could be why it's slowing down so much.