Digital Tutors - Getting Started with Digital Assets in Houd

In this course we will get started with Houdini Digital Assets and learn how to use them. Along with building a complex light rig, the following lessons will show the advantages to using digital assets and the knowledge you gain will be critical in other Houdini projects especially in the realm of character rigging. By making your nodes reusable with digital asset, you can save a lot of time and really take advantage of the procedural nature of Houdini.

Lesson Outline (12 lessons)

1. Introduction and Project Overview
2. Digital Assets in 8 minutes
3. Working with OTL files
4. Multiple OTL definitions
5. Building a dome light rig (part 1)
6. Building a dome light rig (part 2)
7. Creating the Digital Asset from the dome light rig
8. Editing and updating Digital Assets
9. Exposing parameters in Digital Assets
10. Adding shadows to the light rig
11. Using images as point colors
12. Adding menu and file parameters

*** Project files are included
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