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Understanding the interface

Understanding the interface - Houdini Tutorial

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Understanding the interface

- In this video, we're going to take a look at the overall Houdini interface, just to get you up to speed on where things are and what's going on. We won't call out every single icon, but I'm going to give you a general sense of where different things are in the interface and some of the important things you need to jump right in. You know, one of the intimidating things even for me when I started working with 3D software was just the fact that these pieces of software have a lot of different interface elements, and every one has their own sort of specific ways they do things and you can get really hung up if you don't know where all the basics are. So we're going to go over those. At the top of the window in this default here, we've got these shelves where we can do different things. By default, we have our Create Geometry shelf here, on the right, we have our Lighting and Camera shelf, and these are really great ways just to do a bunch of basic, or even some more complex, procedures…

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