{"id":261,"date":"2013-05-22T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2013-05-23T15:09:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:09:59","slug":"houdini-cloudmaker-otl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Houdini CloudMaker OTL"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cloud1.jpg\" alt=\"cloud\" width=\"580\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cloud1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cloud1-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/>\r\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on some cloud-related projects, and I needed a streamlined way to make many different clouds &#8211; with art-directed shapes &#8211; quickly and simply. I&#8217;ve come up with an OTL that takes rough input geometry and then builds a wispy, fractal-y volume for rendering.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Houdini CloudMaker OTL Comparisson\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/66667896?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\r\n\r\n<p>The asset is implemented in Volume VOPs, using simple noise equations to extrapolate cloud-like edges. It creates an intermediate geometry out of metaballs, then creates a volume and adds noise. With this, you can quickly and easily create simple cloud shapes and convert them into high-quality clouds for rendering.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<pre><h2>Download:<\/h2><code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/otls\/cloudMaker.otl\" title=\"CloudMaker\">cloudMaker OTL<\/a><br \/>\r\nrequires houdini 12.5 or higher<\/code><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been working on some cloud-related projects, and I needed a streamlined way to make many different clouds &#8211; with art-directed shapes &#8211; quickly and simply. I&#8217;ve come up with an OTL that takes rough input geometry and then builds a wispy, fractal-y volume for rendering. The asset is implemented in Volume VOPs, using simple <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/?p=261\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue Reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kia_subtitle":"a custom asset that takes rough input geometry and creates awesome clouds","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houdini","category-otls","category-technical-direction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tks-designs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}