Free Houdini 19.5 HDA: Easy Displacement Bake with Example Scene (Aaron Smith)
Original title: Easy Displacement Bake HDA for Houdini 19.5
Overview
Aaron Smith shares Easy Displacement Bake on GitHub as a one-click HDA for baking displacement maps from geometry in Houdini 19.5. The low-resolution mesh goes into the first input and the high-resolution mesh into the second, and the tool, implemented in pure VEX, scales its settings automatically and bakes each UV tile to its UDIM file when the UDIM tag is in the filename.
Optional mesh-analysis masks add localised smoothing, and the included easy_bake_examples.hip shows each feature on 6 different use cases. The repository with the HDA and example scene is a free direct download from GitHub under the MIT licence.
What You Can Learn
- Bake displacement maps from a low- and high-resolution mesh pair without tuning bake settings
- Bake each UV tile to its own UDIM file by adding the UDIM tag to the output filename
- Compare 6 use cases of the tool in the included example scene
What you get: HDA (.hda, .hip) · Houdini 19.5
Visit Original ProjectDownload page (GitHub)Access: Free direct download
