[FXGEAR] Advanced Destruction – Lightning Strike

Advanced Destruction – Lightning Strike

[FXGEAR] Advanced Destruction – Lightning Strike introduce

Course Description

Note: Several lessons are available for free and I encourage you to check them out.

Welcome to Advanced Destruction Series: Lightning Strike

• Creating the terrain

• We will be creating this entire scene in Houdini from scratch, including all the effects, geometry, and compositing.
• We will start by first creating a terrain, using the heightfield workflow.
• We are going to use multiple cutting techniques to obtain fractured pieces only where we need them.
• For the simulation we will create a custom vector that will drive the movement of our pieces.
• And then we will create some small rock debris which we add on top of our simulation to add more variation and realism.

• Lightning FX and Rays

• For the lightning we will create the geometry in various ways. We will use a combination of POP simulations,
• copy to points techniques, and attribute vops to have complete control over the lightning.
• From our fractured pieces we will create some volumetric rays to add on top of the lightning.

• Debris Smoke and Dirt

And finally we will use our fractured geometry to create the smoke debris and another layer of particles which
will essentially act as dirt.

• Render and composite

• In the rendering section I will go over how we can setup different renders for each layer that also contains AOV’s,
• to have complete control over each of our elements.
• In the Nuke section we will bring everything together to complete the final look. This part will be fairly
• straightforward, with the ocasional tips and tricks, and some of my favorites nodes that I use on daily basis.

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