Houdini 18 - Building Destruction - RBD Bullet Solver 

More Tutorials plz. adding debris,smoke,particles,explosion to this would be awesome.

This is excellent! Cleared up basic RBD better than any other I've found thus far. Being new at Houdini, this format of step by step explanation when values are changed helps a ton.

Probably the easiest, clearest Houdini tutorial I've seen so far

Love these quick hit videos! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.. super helpful!

Really nice. Short, sweet, and very clear.

Awesome! Straightforward! Thank you for the tuto!! :)

Houdini is pure magic. Cyber magic! Thank you for this subbed eager to learn! Be safe

Elegant approach!

Awesome stuff man!!

I have followed step-by-step and really good tutorial I like how you are doing In really good pace, much appreciated

Superb Man . Thanks. I m almost Learning Houdini because of Teachers like you. Thanks Again

Hey I found a cool trick you might like- if you hold CTRL+ALT+SHIFT when you copy a node you actually create an instance of the node. Could be helpful for stuff like the copy node here- adjust the parameters on one and they all update :D

Very Clear and easy to follow . Thanks .

Very nicely explained. Thanks

this is the first time i know the trick to drag and drop selected text to create reference value ! neat !

Saved my project with a simple thing that I couldn`t find the solution. I was trying to make a collider inside the geo to simulate the explosions, but this method is way more simple and effective.

Hi, nice quick and clear tut', thanks a lot for that ! A little improvement I found in order to get everything working more procedurally is to set the expression "npoints(0)/16" in the skin N parameter, so the walls don't crossover when changing the original grid shape. :)

You're great man, subscribed. Thanks a lot

Thank you for the awesome tutorial.

God I love your speed. Tutorials for non idiots who know how to pause. Love it!

Its crazy how well you made this tutorial. For someone who started houdini 3 days ago and wanted to get into destruction, I could understand most of what you were saying. Thank you so much!

great tutorial! thanks!

U r awesome... With ur single video i learnt a lot...

very good tutorial, thanks !

the modeling part was really good, I believe the sweep node is diff in houdini 18, thank you man.

Amazing, very well explained, please more VFX tuts

That's cool and too ergonomic !! GG

You are a life saver!!

Love it!

the alt click to merge tip alone is worth the video.. thanks

This tutorial is really optimize !

Pretty cool

Awesome

Wow. Thanks.

Awesome Tutorial! A lot to learn in this video. Just wanted to know how to export this as a video from houdini?

Nice Tutorial ! I have a question, if I want to add for example, put a second impact point on another zone with a delay, can I copy group create and pointvelocity node and merge them with a timeshift ? Or Is there another method ? Thank you so much ! :)

Hey :) Super cool! I wanted to combine two of your explosions, so it happened different places on the building.... with two groups with different names, merged them,and put them in a new group - and I got all the new selected points combined, but when I added them in the pointvelocity sop, and attached it in the solver - it only seem to pick up the group that is first in the merge node - any idea how to get around this?

loved this tutorial !! also REALLY want to see how to add smoke and explosion together !!

any info about the car racing course? Hopefully it wont use wheel colliders, but ray casts

love u so much

Hey ! Great tutorial ! Very simple to understand and follow. However, when i put the point velocity nothing happen and i can't get the exploding effect. Do you know how to fix it ?

Hello , nice to see something about dynamic :) any eta on gumroad of wood cabine and procedural building ? I'm hesitant to subscribe to patron , but if you say to long I guess I'll have to :)

a tutorial on how to render this out nicely, would be amazing! thanks for the great video!

This is amazing man! I want to add smoke as it destructs. Is there any tutorials out there I can follow ?

I'm new to Houdini and I have a problem with the skin node at 2:13. I have to set My "N" to 64 to get the same result witch makes more inner geometry inside.

beautiful to see it simulated. we can't blow up building in real world

Great video. Would it be better to cache it using the RBD I/O node? It will pack your hi-res geo, constraints and proxy geometry at the same time.

Very nice tutorial. But i don't know why destruction zone (last step) is not working to me

wicked! do you know how to make smoke come out from the inner surfaces?

Hi! Thanks for the tutorial! How can i stick all the building in the ground and prevent the parts for fall before a explosion for example?

Hey, Great tutorial, thanks for sharing. Subscribed. I'm having a similar issue to other people here and couldn't fine a solution. The point velocity node is affecting the whole the building and not just the corner. I changed the group name to $OS as others suggested and tried lowering the strength on the glue constraints to very low and even nothing. I still can't get the point velocity to affect just the corner with the group selection. Any thoughts? I'm using 18.0.287

this is cool tutorial respect for that, but i think this rbdmaterialfracture node is too heavy node for hard model building to destroy that. However its good experience, thanks for tutorial :)

hey there , how can we add force like wind for the rbdbulletsolver?

currently using houdini 17.5,couldn't find rbdbulletsolver in there :(

This was an awesome tutorial as usual... Could you please please please continue it by adding smoke and dust and debris. I am kinda new and struggling with that... I don't want to use the shelf tools... If you could just add to the tutorial that and explain how it's done please. It would be highly appreciated. Thanks for all your effort.

i like how you set velocity on point and create explosion on that, is there a way to set the velocity activate on a certain frame?

Anyone got a tutorial on how to use impact points? The best work flow for particles and dust?

thank you . i just don't konw how to add the force field, with the new solver

Awesome tutor,thanks!How to export this cool effect to unity?

Hey, great tutorial, I enjoyed watching it! I was wondering, would one be able to export this sim from the filecache to an alembic format so the scene could be loaded into another 3D software?

im having trouble with constraints... I followed all the steps but the glue doesn't stick or hold unless i change the primary strength to -100 or lower even when doing that i cant control the chipping glue either...could you look at my file and see?

How do you make sure, the building stays on the spot. When I try to destroy my building (tower) with an explosion, the tower lifts up from the ground and actually falls because of the impact, not because of the destruction. Do I have to glue the Building to the ground plane somehow? Thanks!

Can you use the same rest of the node path with pre-made geometry?

how can we transfer uv from our model to rbdbullet solver for texturing

How to import USD animation into blender? Like I don't really want to reinstall Houdini Apprentice to Houdini Engine to be able to export Alembic. Sadly I cant use Nvidia Omniverse yet.

Hey man, how would I add an animated object as a collider to this sim? Hooking up a rbd configure and plugging it into the collision geo doesn't work :(

I can't get the blast working. It moves the whole building not just the points I selected. I did everything just like u did so the only problem I can think of is that the version I'm using is 18.0.391 so it's a bit newer.

Im using Houdini 18.5 and when i select the Skip every Nth point and decrease it, it stays the same it doesnt form into a building, can anyone help me with this ?

Building complete at 5:30

Great tutorial! Please, help me. It pushes the whole house, not selected points. I don't understand what i missed.

how to at inaktiv area? so the bottom doesnt "fall"

the point velocity node does not work in my view, its hooked up to the same part as well

How can you export this and get it WORKING in UE4? I have followed other tuts, checked all over about the rdb to fbx node but CAAAANNOT get the animation playing in UE4? Any hints or tuts pleeeeeeease?

man u are good at modeling, make simple props tutorials. There is a huge lack of modeling tutorials

Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. Trying to collapse a skyscraper model and it keeps falling through the ground plane. Hit the button to turn on the ground plane and also hit the ground plane button under the collision tab. WTF am I doing wrong!?!?!

how do I export the simulation to a FBX file?

when i do the skin node, it doesn't input the exact same as yours (same thing, skip every nth primitive, 8)

Hello, so I have tried following this tutorial 3 times now - however I have the issue that, instead of the corner being blasted out, my entire building just gets thrown across the ground, like it was not attached to the ground. I don't know where I went wrong because I 1:1 tried to replicate this - I have tried using an RBD configure to make pieces on the ground inactive, however this also removes the effect of the pointvelocity.

does anybody know which parameter controls the velocity of the explosion blast? thanks!

Hey, Gr8 tutorial! But when I try to export it into fbx it says there is no geometry there.. I cant find how to fix this issue, does it work for you?

how do I select the bounding sphere?

How you add the ground???? Ground is not coming in my file😅😅😅😅

hi~can i export this fx with animation as .fbx file?i want make it work in unity

Are you down with RBD's ?

Nice tutorial! But I have a serious problem. I stucked at 12:33 and nothing happened. Something is wrong. pointvelocity doesn't work. Nothing changed.

Guys i have nvidia cuda 310m will hudini run properly i miss a lot of tutorial..😣😣😣

hey brother when you will upload your racing car course??

omg, this is a cursed 3d moddeling program

How I Can add debris and smoke?

RayFire is very more easy & intuitive ! don't you think ?

Hey, sorry, I deleted my other post because I thought I was being a doofus, but I think I figured out what's happening... I was correct, you can't break glue constraints with anything other than impacts. So I believe what's happening in your example is that the point velocity is moving the individual objects that make up those sections of the building and they are impacting each other, which in turn is breaking the constraints inside each section. It looks like the point velocity is blowing out individual chunks of the building, but it's really not. This was confusing me because I've been trying to blow out the side of a solid object and have the thing collapse after the blast. Like if your building was a solid cube for instance. This doesn't work the way this is setup, so I've been searching for a solution. edit" I just found this, which I think will do what I need. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fzRJcGFuPXU.html

In Houdini 18.5, the group name is not $os. In 18.5, the group name is group 1. Is there a reason?

When I search for fracture nothing comes up

brother chipping is not working for me :(

so annoying that you cant export this to blender :( cries in broke

Hey :) Super cool! I wanted to combine two of your explosions, so it happened different places on the building.... with two groups with different names, merged them,and put them in a new group - and I got all the new selected points combined, but when I added them in the pointvelocity sop, and attached it in the solver - it only seem to pick up the group that is first in the merge node - any idea how to get around this?