Houdini Tutorial - Electricity Generator

Source files available on Hey guys, Been a while since I uploaded any tutorials. But been busy with doing my personal teaserfilm ’Tether’, which includes a lot of electricity type effects. So I figured i’d make a extensive tutorial on how to make a electricity generator HDA. Tutorial goes in to detail on how to build the assets and how you could expand on top of it. Index: 00:00:06 - intro 00:01:09 - seting up controls adding lines 00:04:06 - adding speed controls 00:09:44 - shape splines to base geo 00:10:44 - remove by length 00:14:08 - creating the bulge 00:17:16 - creating width foreach prim 00:22:07 - adding noises 00:37:07 - creating branches 00:46:00 - split branches 00:48:26 - adding width and noises to branches 00:56:30 - spawning by attribute 00:58:55 - hiding parameters in custom interface 01:05:02 - adding thickness for rendering 01:12:00 - rendering 01:15:46 - splitting renders with takes 01:24