Instancing Variation and The Solaris Instancer: Instancing Part 2 - Handy Houdini Tips 

Here's the link to the file download: bit.ly/HHT_Instancing_p2 I had to remove the textures from the terrain because Quixel assets cannot be redistributed. You can use whichever materials you want instead. Also, yes, my mousepad is a piece of cardboard.

Probably one of the best explanations on how to use instancing in Solaris! Thanks for sharing! Can't wait for the Part 3 :D

You are a Master, Oh my God, thank you so much for everything you share.

Another great tip as always. Thank you for sharing!

its awesome to see your videos which make it all clear, loved it.

I wish I could double like it. Really good stuff!

great tutorial. does part 3 focus on material assigments for individual parts of an instanced tree (i.e. leaves, branches, trunk)

good stuff! The noise posterization tecnique is really usefull

An excellent tutorial! Thanks

Extremely helpful! many thanks!

I love the way you explain and I guess it becomes extremely useful for someone like me that it's now approaching to the Houdini proceduralism for doing things. The only thing that I can't figure out is the way we can proceed into the lighting/rendering stage as the material, in the stream, doesn't seem to work and it gets overwritten by the Cd attribute coming with the scatter points into the stage. I've tried with deleting attributes, putting the material library under the "instancer", applying the materials directly to a specific geometry of the instances, but nothing chaged and I don't have any idea on how to proceed with this method to get the material I've made show up in the final render. Even in your scene there is no material at the end of the tutorial so I was guessing what was your next stage in that specific scenario to advance to the final asset showing in the renderview. Thank you in advance! 😊

awesome stuff - love from SA

Great tutorial, thanks for sharing

SA to the world 💯

incredible content

superstar you are, thank you!

Thanks for your videos! Is there any advantage in terms of rendering results or performance in using Solaris instances instead of cached instances in SOP?

Very helpful! Thanks

Hey, great tutorial, thank you ! But i cant find hip file in description.

Grazie.

greate tutorial ! thanks ! could you also show how to create vaiation on geometry subset materilas.

You my hero fam

Somehow I followed every step and even instancing the same geo in sop everything works perfectly fine but when I use the instancer node Houdini instances all different variations in every point, not one random variation for each point. Dyk why could that be? Thanks and amazing job!!

thanks!

does anyone know how to come he has the materials on the trees in solaris .. even tho he never used a material node after the instancer???? i expected the trees will be without materials

its awesome to see your videos Thank you for what you have shared "So with VDB (such as Cloud), we can use this method, right? Can you make a tutorial on how to instancer VDB?"

YES!!!!!!!!!!

Please do a beginning guide on Attribute VOP

For some reaon when I get to instancing in Solaris the trees are putting like 7 on each point and I cannot figure out why.

Would you mind sharing your workstation specifications? I am running on a i7 13700j, 3070ti, and 128gb of memory, but for some reason my station is killing itself trying to load this.

I'm aware this is an older video but it's worth putting the idea out there for you to make a video or if anyone knows a good solution to this. For the species attribute is there a way you could have multiple different meshes for the species as well without splitting them into different instancers. For example having the species attribute specify what actual species the plant is but then like a sub-index attribute that could randomize which variant of the plant species to use. Is there an intuitive and or efficient way to do this without just splitting species into different instancers?