Create a UE Playable Character with Houdini Animations

In this session, I'll demonstrate how to export a character rig from Houdini into Unreal Engine and replace the default mannequin playable character in UE with our custom character rig. I'll export the procedural animations from Houdini into UE and the whole process doesn't require retargeting because the skeleton rig was created from scratch in Houdini!

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Crowds Basic Concept #6C - Target Selective Agents

In this video, I'm going to demonstrate how you can target specific agents in the Crowd SIM in Houdini and apply specific Crowd Triggers for full control! We'll organize the agents and give them unique attributes to be used in the Crowd SIM.

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Crowds Basic Concept #2 - Character States & Animations

Adding animations to the characters in the Crowd simulation in Houdini really makes a scene come alive. You can easily create large scenes with Crowds making for a very busy and urban look.

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KineFX Animation Basic Concept #5B & #5C - Animation Workflow

I use a new character that I've made to show case how to setup the animate and setup the IK Controls utilizing all the Basic Concept videos up until now in this Kine-FX mini-series for Houdini! There's a lot of new tips and tricks within this video that are only available in this video, that will help you rig & animate characters in Houdini using Kine-FX!

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KineFX Animation Basic Concept #2 - IK Controls & Anchor Points

We start digging deeper into Houdini's Kine-FX world by introducing the IK Full Body node. You're going to love this node! It makes character posing so much easier! And if you use the workflow I suggest in the video, you'll find that you don't need any bone remapping at all!

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KineFX Animation Basic Concept #1 - Simple Setup

A very super simple introduction for those that have never touched KineFX in Houdini before. This video is meant to be very simple and if you have any experience with KineFX, you should probably skip to the next KineFX Animation Basic Concept #2 IK Controls.

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Head Generator HDA v1 (beta release)

Head Generator HDA! Create different character heads on the fly just by dragging the timeline in Houdini, each unique frame number will generate a different head mesh. Make custom adjustments on the head by tweaking the sliders on the HDA. And it gets better! All onward randomly generate heads will be based on your changes!

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Character Rigs Available!

I think it would be nice to release some of the different character rigs that I’ve used and will continue to use for future projects. You can use these rigs to follow along with the tutorial and try out your own experimental Houdini setups!

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