From the course: Houdini: Advanced Motion Graphics
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Importing Houdini files in to CINEMA 4D - Houdini Tutorial
From the course: Houdini: Advanced Motion Graphics
Importing Houdini files in to CINEMA 4D
- [Voiceover] Houdini has a fantastic built-in renderer and really great shading and lighting tools, however, if you're a Cinema 4D user and you're comfortable with this environment, you may want to work in a way where you create assets in Houdini and bring them into Cinema 4D to do your lighting and shading and scene assembly, and with Alembic files, this is all a very smooth work flow. We're going to open up the Cinema 4D file we've built for you. Go Open, Chapter Five, Cinema 4D, 05-02 Start, and this has some shaders and some lights and a camera set up for us so we can bring our assets in and really quickly just make this look good. For this example, we're using the Arnold renderer for Cinema 4D. I'm going to go into the File menu and I'm gonna pick Merge. I'm gonna go to our Assets folder in our Chapter Five folder. First I'm gonna bring in the room. Make sure my display is set to Constant Shading, and there we go. There we have our room that we built in Houdini and now we've…
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