When it comes to procedural modelling, making the right selections is the hardest part, demanding every trick and technique in the book. Here, we’ll give you the skills you need, providing a deep knowledge of Houdini’s procedural selection toolkit – the mighty Group SOPs. Soon, you’ll be generating procedural hard surface models with ease, plus you’ll have a stack of techniques you can use in FX and MoGraph workflows to boot!
By the end of this course, you’ll have a deep understanding of:
*All the essentials Group SOPs
*The procedural counterparts to the interactive selection techniques covered in Geometry Essentials 07
*Using group syntax to make procedural selections directly in group parameters
*Using connectivity groups and connectivity attributes to define selection regions
*Combining grouping techniques to make complex procedural selections
*The best practice selection workflows for effective procedural modelling
