Free Houdini HIP: Snowfall Particle Sim Template (Sergi Key)
Sergi Key shares this free Houdini template project file for a falling-snow effect, presented in a short showcase video rather than a step-by-step tutorial.
View ProjectFree Houdini Particles (POP) Project Files
Particles (POP) projects for Houdini: 12 free project files with notes on what each one demonstrates, linked to their original sources.
12 free project files
Free Houdini HIP: Abstract Volume Trails Effect (CG Artist Academy)
CG Artist Academy provides this free Houdini project file from their abstract volume trails tutorial. The effect starts with a POP Network that generates particle trails, explores several approaches for different looks…
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Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: POP Grains Sand Pit to C4D Octane (Ali Imran)
Muhammad Ali Imran offers this free Houdini 20.5 file from his sand pit tutorial. The scene creates a realistic sand simulation with POP Grains, then exports it to Cinema 4D for rendering with Octane, covering grain-sim…
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Free Houdini HIP: Sparse Pyro to POP Particle Advection (Tutorialavi)
Tutorialavi shares this free Houdini project file from a tutorial on driving particles with pyro. A stylized smoke burst from the Sparse Pyro solver provides the velocity field that advects a POP particle simulation…
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Free Houdini HIP: Axiom Car Fire Breakdown with Embers (DAMIDIGITAL)
This free Houdini project file by DAMIDIGITAL accompanies a breakdown of a burning car-wreck shot simulated with the Axiom GPU pyro solver.
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIP: Abstract Particle Flow, Redshift (Mats Nyman)
Mats Nyman provides this free Houdini 19.5 project file from his Abstract Particle Flow tutorial. Particles emitted from an initial shape are advected through a velocity field, cached and colored, then rendered in…
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIP: Spaceship Rising from Desert Sand Grain Sim
This free Houdini 19.5 hip file comes from a Japanese YouTube channel devoted to USD and VFX pipeline explanations, accompanying a breakdown of a Shorts clip in which a spaceship rises out of desert sand.
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Free Houdini HIP: Pyro Advection, Driving POP Particles (RMA FIRE)
RMA FIRE provides this free Houdini project file from a tutorial on pyro advection. It drives POP particles with the velocity of a Pyro simulation to add dust and debris variation or wispy, smoke-like particle behavior…
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Free Houdini HIP: Vellum Grain Particle Animation, Octane (Entagma)
Entagma provides this free Houdini project file from a tutorial on abstract particle animation inspired by Maxim Zhestkov.
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Free Houdini HIP: POP Particle Dance and Disintegration (Think Trix)
Think Trix shares two free Houdini project files, made for Houdini 17 or later, in a POP walkthrough video. Particle Dance places abstract particles on a dancing character animation and Easy Particle Disintegration…
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Free Houdini HIP: POP Particle Basics (Agora Visual Effects)
This Houdini scene is the class file for chapter 7, 'Partículas', of the free Spanish-language Houdini course by Agora Visual Effects (Jordi Torcal).
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Free Houdini HIPLC: Meshing Small Scale FLIP Sims (Alvaro Moreira, Entagma)
Alvaro Moreira shares this scene with his guest tutorial on Entagma about meshing small scale FLIP sims. The tutorial covers optimizing small scale fluid meshes: smoothing a fluid's surface while maintaining sharp…
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