Free Houdini HIP: Lighting Basics with Mantra (Agora Visual Effects)

Overview

This Houdini scene is the class file for chapter 4, 'Iluminación', of the free Spanish-language Houdini course by Agora Visual Effects (Jordi Torcal). The chapter applies a basic photographic lighting scheme to a 3D scene and renders it with Mantra, Houdini's built-in renderer, showing how a lighting setup borrowed from photography translates into Houdini lights.

The public Google Drive folder linked from the video holds Curso_Houdini_Iluminacion.hip along with the scene geometry as an OBJ and an HDR image, all free to download with no signup or payment. It is a practical exercise for beginners learning lighting and rendering fundamentals in Houdini.