Hello Houdini Artists.! This course will show you all the steps involved in setting up an Avalanche FX rig.

There are over 5 hours of lecture videos going over the process of creating this setup.

You should have working knowledge of Houdini before enrolling in this course. If you have done my previous Houdini course “Master Houdini FX”, you will have all the Houdini basics needed to be able to follow this course with ease.

This course is “Fast paced”, which means I will not be explaining every function of every node I use on screen. I will explain what is necessary, but basic nodes will not be explained in detail, this is to try keeping this total course time to a minimum and to not bore those that have a working knowledge of Houdini's core functions and nodes.

All lectures will have Houdini hip files for you to download and any other necessary assets. There are two sets of files for students to download. Files for those rendering in Redshift, and files for those rendering in default Mantra. The rendered output of the Redshift render will not be exact to the Mantra output since they are different engines using different shaders and lighting, but they will be pretty close.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I encourage you to watch the intro video and watch some of the “free” videos so you can get a sense of what the course is like.

This course will be using Houdini 18.5.499. If you have any version of Houdini that has sparse solving, then you should have no problems following along with the lecture videos. You can still do the entire course if using an earlier version(as long as it has grains), you would just have to use the dense solver for our snow powder sim.