The MARDINI Daily Art Challenge is your chance to compete for cool prizes by creating images or animations using Houdini! With a different challenge every day during the month of March, you’ll have 31 chances to enter and win.
Here is a scene file with some examples from the video: https://media.sidefx.com/uploads/contests/mardini2024/moeen_videos/mardini_examples_day9_background_plate_lop.zip
For this year’s MARDINI, the daily prompts are specific Houdini nodes. The Day 9 challenge is the Background Plate.
Learn more: https://www.sidefx.com/community-main-menu/contests-jams/mardini-2024/
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Amazing as always! Is there any reason why my C aov disappears (viewing exr in nuke) when I also render a motion vectors aov with the background plate?
Interesting indeed. Quick one though, if the camera is moving and if we want to bake, let's say, the texture of the table frame by frame, is the background plate node would be useful?
This is great. Have wondered for a while how to just get this out composited as it is in the viewport, that should really just be a checkbox on the background plate or something, would never have figured this out!
#question
Thanks for the useful video! In most of the work you need to get shadows only from specific objects. How to make sure that the table does not cast a shadow on itself. In the mantra we simply excluded the geometry of the table from a specific light, but how to do this in karma?
This is a very useful series! How do I add a ground plane (in this case the table) back to the scene, so the object (in this case the candle plate) will get the correct bounce light from it?
It is crazy that this was in Houdini and I had no idea. I guess when you have a toolbox filled with a million and one tools, it is hard to get to know them all.
Thank you very much !!!