Tutorial 13. UV Tools

This Tutorial is an overview of the different nodes available to create UVs in Houdini, and also covers setup, display and previewing of UVs and textures in Houdini, and demonstrates a quick way to display PBR textures.
The topics covered are
Displaying UVs (at 1:00 minutes)
UV Quickshade node (at 3:40 minutes)
Simple UV tools: UV Unwrap, UV Project, UV Texture nodes (at 5:45 minutes)
UV Pelt node (at 14:20 minutes)
UV Flatten node (at 22:50 minutes)
UV Autoseam node (at 30:50 minutes)
UV Layout node (at 39:20 minutes)
UV Editing Tools: UV Brush, UV Edit, UV Transform, UV Smooth, UV Fuse (at 42:30 minutes)
Multiple UV sets (at 47:40 minutes)
Displaying PBR textures in Houdini (at 49:40 minutes)
You can download the scene file here:
www.houdinikitchen.net/wp-con...
and you can download a copy of the finished Smoking Spacemen Robot here:
www.houdinikitchen.net/wp-con...
This includes a HIP file with the network used to build the robot as well as finished UV'd model GEO file.
More information on my Website
www.houdinikitchen.net

[@HBOMEGA]

Got to love how you fill in all the gaps, Thanks again for all these amazing tutorials

[@steroidz5730]

I've been procrastinating on the UV tools in Houdini. Very useful.

[@travislrogers]

That's the most exciting video on UV's I've ever seen! :) Thank you for the thorough explanation. Super helpful in understanding how to best approach this toolset!

[@davebryand1960]

Agree--thank you!! 💖

[@aeko]

Best video I've seen on UVs. Thanks!

[@ErikBorchersVR]

Thank you so much for making this video / series.

[@i20010]

At last a good UV tut for Houdini! Thank you!!!

[@Emeteriowallace]

Thank you very much for all your work. I’m learning houdini from the basics thanks to you :)

[@houdinikitchen]

Thanks, that is great to hear

[@white_sky_11]

I watched all video in the series very good introduction to houdini.

[@houdinikitchen]

Wow, I am impressed!

[@photoindra]

Thanks for timecode. It's very useful coming back to long videos later on and trying to find something.

[@houdinikitchen]

I am glad it is helpful. It was a nice surprise that youtube automatically links my times up with the video.

[@OscarGaya]

Very cool tutorials, Thanks

[@mdsanima]

cool tutorial here! thank you! Keep going!

[@nobody-u-know]

Thanks so much!

[@aeroastroarts]

Very helpful tutorial!

[@MainDoodler]

Maya->Houdini
ok so
project is planar project,
unwrap is auto project,
uvflattern is unwrap, also cut/seam/allign/straighten uvs (pin is ignore while repacking)
uvlayout is Layout
uvautoseam is ... autocut (idk)
uvtransform is moving along the pivot

[@viktorofobos]

hello, very cool lesson, I have a question
how to texture an animated alembic if it does not have a uv attribute?

Super

[@milanhilferink4051]

This is so complicated I can hear your brain cranking

[@aeko]

Quick question: Do these tools all with UDIMs as well? For instance: would I just use UV Transform to push the UVs into the next UDIM space?

[@metaturnal]

Hey, I'm really frustrated because I can't to find out how I can create UVs of a torus (created by a sweep) so that the both "hemispheres are not on top of each other.
Also I don't understand how to cut islands, when I select loops that should divide the torus into 8 islands, I still only have island 0.
I know I'm doing something wrong but IDK what it is.

[@litote9]

Helpful, thanks. Where does the AO map go in the Principled shader?

[@houdinikitchen]

Unfortunately the principled shader doesn't have a slot for AO.

[@alianwar6437]

19:32
because topology is not good

[@ManuelVillemur]

Hangouts 😢