However, this tank slowly reduces the particles velocities over a period of time on the edges of the tank. However, it doesn't have great control of the waves it contains.īeach Tank: Another FLIP particle tank. This entire tank will be filled with particles. Wave Tank: A FLIP particle fluid simulation that creates a tank to simulate waves. Great for shallow water simulations, or for adding boats to water. Grabs velocity attributes from the ocean spectrum node. This tool is primarily a FLIP simulation, and also creates an ocean volume to create realistic ocean water levels. However, it also creates a layer of particles that are controlled by point velocities. Guided Ocean Layer: Similar to the above tools, this tool creates an ocean surface. This tool is also great for creating large scale oceans that span long distances. It doesn't use DOPs and once again is great with creating an ocean surface. Large Ocean: This tool is similar to the small ocean tool. But if less promising if you'd like to create something that dives in and out through an ocean body. It's good in the sense you can simulate an ocean surface relatively fast. Small Ocean: This tool is for creating an ocean surface, not an actual ocean simulation. Now let's get into our current set of ocean/water simulation tools we can use. Currently as I speak, the Preview of Houdini 18 has just been released, and inside are some lovely updates and They've added a FLIP pressure projection tool. In the current version of Houdini 17, there are an amazing amount of tools you can use to build an ocean body simulation. I thought that it might be helpful to condense some knowledge that I was allowed to learn, plus some other resources that are available for you to explore. They were so bad-ass when it came to creating these simulations, that I was entranced by their skill. Recently, I had the joy of being part of a team that specialized in ocean and water fx.

Houdini water tank