Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: Falling Books with Vellum and Solaris (SideFX)
Original title: Falling Books Using Vellum and Solaris
Overview
Falling Books Using Vellum and Solaris is a free Houdini 20.5 scene by Dmitrii Vlasenko in the SideFX Content Library. It simulates a pile of falling books with Vellum cloth, then assembles and lights the shot in Solaris/USD before rendering with Karma, serving as a worked example of lighting and scene assembly in a USD pipeline.
The 240 MB zip (book_vellum.zip) is a direct download from SideFX under the Standard License with no login required. A good reference for combining cloth simulation with a Solaris lighting workflow.
What You Can Learn
- Vellum cloth simulation of a pile of falling books
- Assembling and lighting the shot in Solaris/USD
- Rendering with Karma in a USD pipeline
Access: Free direct download
