FXPHD – HOU223 – Taking Houdini Digital Assets to the Next Level

数字资产是 Houdini 日常使用的核心。您可能已经创建了 HDA，也下载了一些其他人创建的 HDA。本课程的目标是分析什么是好的 HDA，以及如何应用这些概念来创建更强大的数字资产。作为 HOU140 – Houdini FX Tool Building Foundation 的后续课程，本中级课程假定您了解 Houdini 的一些基本知识以及 HDA 的工作原理。

整个课程围绕一个真实的生产场景展开，该场景涉及创建用于在各种建筑物上创建屋顶瓦片的数字资产。第一堂课将介绍用户界面的创建，并介绍一些制作更加用户友好的 HDA 的技术。接下来的课程将通过提高 HDA 的性能和迭代时间以及组织 HDA 内部结构、验证输入属性和执行错误检查、记录和调试的最佳实践来继续开发。

课程的最后一部分将介绍更新 HDA 的技巧，并介绍 2 种自动化测试的新技术，这些测试通过在 Python 中执行几何和渲染比较来检查 HDA 的完整性。最后的课程将涵盖更多可应用于 HDA 的 Python 提示和技巧，这将导致屋顶瓦片生成器项目的完成。到本课程结束时，您将学到足够的技术来创建更好、更可靠和对用户更友好的 HDA。

Duration 4h 20m Project Files Included MP4

Title: FXPHD – HOU223 – Taking Houdini Digital Assets to the Next Level

Info:
Digital Assets are at the center of everyday use of Houdini. You have probably created HDAs and also downloaded some created by others. The goal of this course is to analyze what makes a good HDA and how you can apply these concepts to create more robust Digital Assets. As a follow up to HOU140 – Houdini FX Tool Building Foundation, this intermediate course assumes some basic knowledge of Houdini and how HDAs work.

The whole course revolves around a realistic production scenario that involves creating a Digital Asset for creating roof tiles on a variety of buildings. The first classes will go over the creation of the user interface and present some techniques for making more user friendly HDAs. The next classes will continue the development by improving the performance and the iteration times of the HDA as well as best practices for organizing the internals of the HDA, validating input attributes and performing error checks, documenting and debugging.

The last part of the course will cover tips for updating HDAs and introduce 2 new techniques for automating tests that check the integrity of the HDA by performing geometry and render comparisons in Python. The last classes will cover some more Python tips and tricks that can be applied to HDAs, which will lead to the finalization of the roof tiles generator project. By the end of this course you will have learned enough techniques to create better, more reliable and more user friendly HDAs.