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Instance node

Instance node - Houdini Tutorial

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Instance node

- [Narrator] Now it's time to actually create our instances. What I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna type tab, instance, and our overall object level, I'm gonna put this up here, under our ground, move these around a little bit, 'cause these will be the things that actually get rendered. Call this instances, and I'm gonna make that bright yellow, again, 'cause that's just what I use for things that we actually are going to see. I'm gonna click off on particle result. Okay, so now we're gonna go inside the instances node, and you can see by default, there's just an add node in there that just adds one point in the middle of the scene, just to have a default instance, and so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do an object merge, we can bring anything in here we want, and I'm gonna go to our particule result, and you can see we have right up at the top here this underscore out, and I'm gonna bring that in. Okay. Now we've brought in our point into the instances node, and just for good measure…

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