Up subdivision on the main mesh.

I do apologize, I usually check the sound volume while wearing headphones, so it might be a tad shy yes.

@@BizarreSelfProductionI can hear very well even at low volume with nice voice though

i think smth worng with your speaaker man

@@bondell1840 👍

Great tutorial btw !

@@NathanTekaya you can hide bucket squares, if i'm not mistaken. Thanks.

@@BizarreSelfProduction Oh ok !

This is the way.

you can transform the planet after the material assignment, if that's what you're referring to.

@@BizarreSelfProduction ah that didnt work unfortunately. The noise pattern becomes too small :(. Any other suggestions?

@@spectrewashere try adding transform node inside the shader right after you take P from globals, and set it to from camera to object space.

@@BizarreSelfProduction It works! Thanks so much, really appreciate the help. Have a great day.

Hard to tell just from this description, you can always try rendering with Mantra and see if that works and then switch to Karma.

@@BizarreSelfProduction Figured out the issue. The VEX Material Builder is only compatible with Karma CPU and not XPU.

​@@authenticmuffin well, yeah, I assumed you tried it with Karma CPU) for XPU use matX shading, approach will be the same.

@@BizarreSelfProduction Thanks yea sorry, this was kinda my first time diving into Solaris. It's funny how simple things can stump you for a minute haha.

Depends if you want a variation in that direction. You can use Zero Centered Perlin to go both ways on + and -

@@BizarreSelfProduction OK , i try , thx

You can layer water mtl based on the holes mask.

Glad to hear. All links are in the About section)

Like anything else, it does require practice)

There are dedicated beginners training even on SideFX website. This is not one of them. If you want entry level tutorials you need to look explicitly for them.

or your mind simply can't handle it. 😂

Heyo. You can potentially just animate noise offset, but it's probably not gonna move in a realistic way you would expect real lava to move. Might be enough for BG, but for hero shot you would definitely need a proper FX simulation.

I found a solution, not sure if it's the best approach(?). I have 2 separate sweep nodes, 1 is for a winding road curve (the design I want), and the other is for a straight line in Z (like in your tutorial) that is the exact total length of the other curve, and the same number of points. In the straight 'line' node I use the expression 'arclen' in the length parameter and reference the winding road curve's length, and for the number of points I use the expression 'npoints' and again reference the other curve. I connected both into a 'rest' node afterwards, and combined with a 'restpos' node in the material- connecting it directly after 'P' from the surface globals.. then it works!

In case of a curving road I would recommend using a nurbs curve to drive the paint. Then in shader you will need to use minpos + distance and use global position and the position of a curve.

@@BizarreSelfProduction Thanks! I'll give this a go, and sorry- I've seen you've already answered this question before from another comment 👍

Heyo, no that was just a pre-rendered cinematics. I wish it was a mod, lol.

@@BizarreSelfProduction ok îs cool

Not sure I understand a question. Do you mean an actual simulation of it growing? You try searching for dop net sims videos on that topic or animate the base shape and apply the same treatment i show here.

Heyo, sorry for late reply. You can put attribrandomize on to points before copying to points. And make one for each attribute you want to have (pscale, orient, etc.) Or for rotation use a simple VEX expression for quaternion transform like in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsppqLCG35PSgXU.html

Heyo, you can try using AO nodes: help.maxon.net/r3d/houdini/en-us/Default.htm#html/Ambient%252bOcclusion.html

@@BizarreSelfProduction Thanks, so would that be using the AO node as a mask or 'material blend' to show the glow areas?

@@reelinspirations yes, you can also mix it with the noise, so that it won't be too uniform.

Check out the pinned comment from me above)

I showed all of the settings you need to recreate it, why do you need the file? Try making it!

@@BizarreSelfProduction It’s good to have it as a reference so was just wondering. No big deal. Thanks anyways! 😊

@@shivdholakia It is a big deal... I can't understand why people ask for the project file. The software is right there waiting for you to play with it? If you need the project file so badly, maybe 3d isn't for you.

@@Todd_Manus I only meant to say it’s no problem if he doesn’t want to share the scene file. Sometimes it’s good to have the scene file so you can use it as a reference and compare with your scene file. Also, it’s good to see exactly what settings he was using to reproduce the effect faithfully. Anyways, all good. No worries. Now let’s leave it at that 😊

Side FX Houdini, it's in the title ^^`

Nodes might be different, not sure if MatX has exactly same ones, as last time i checked it was fairly limiting compared to native VEX nodes.

Heyo, unfortunately i don't specialize in simulations for houdini)

Heyo, seems like you've made a mistake in the expression you've put in there. Maybe missing a bracket, or a coma.

Latest tutorials do exactly that. I agree.

Hello, yes, if you want to use Renderman specifically, you can get a non-commercial version for free. Just follow the instructions: rmanwiki.pixar.com/display/RFH24/Installation+of+RenderMan+for+Houdini