Rope Typography Using Houdini’s Vellum & Octane Render

Support us on Patreon: After seeing polygonpen’s C4D Rope tutorial ( on Lesterbanks, we though – why not give it a go in Houdini. So in this tutorial we’re gonna go over creating a basic vellum sim which will form the backbone of our rope typo, then creating said rope and finally rendering it using Octane Render. 00:00 - Intro 00:26 - Importing & Preparing Your Spline 02:15 - Fixing Overlaps Using Vellum 04:11 - Custom Forces 06:24 - Creating the Rope’s Geometry 11:48 - Deforming the Rope onto the Spline 12:50 - Fixing UVs 13:29 - Adding Detail: Hairs 17:30 - Adding Detail: Fluff 18:33 - Setting Up Rendering in Octane 20:02 - Shading / Creating Materials 24:53 - Hair Shading 26:30 - Infamous Last Words Project File(s):