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Cool water effects don't have to be heavy, as proven by VFX Generalist Mattia Merenda, who set up an impressive rain FX in Houdini, drenching Spider-Man in the process.
According to him, it is procedural (not physics-based), fast, and cheap, running "almost in real time" without FLIP simulations. The effect was created using "a POPs sim to source and move the points on a fixed vel field."
If you're curious about the workflow, Merenda should soon provide a tutorial for the setup. Meanwhile, visit his X/Twitter to find more interesting projects.
We also have other rain simulations you might be interested in: realistic setups in Houdini or Houdini and UE5, real-time in Blender, and stylized with Geometry Nodes.
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