Tutorial: Creating a Realistic Sun in Houdini

Creating a realistic Sun inside Houdini isn’t easy. It a certain number of skills to recreate its magnetic field and other essential elements. Bogdan Lazar might help. The artist has shared the first part of his 90-minute tutorial on building the star inside a solution by SideFX. Bogdan discusses vex coding, vector calculus, VDB volumes, particle simulation, magnetic fields and much more.

Watch the first part below:

Stay tuned for the second part!