From the course: Houdini: Particles

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Scene overview

- [Instructor] Now we'll take a look at the template scene we've provided here. We have this little floating drone object that is flying around this tower. Maybe it's fixing something or checking something out on this futuristic little pole here. And so, what we're gonna do is we're gonna have particles that are emitting from the motion of this moving drone. As if this little kind of points on the edges are maybe little thrusters or engines and so as it moves in different directions, we'll emit particles off those, that we're gonna then put sprites on to create a smoke simulation based on sprites coming out of this object. So we're not gonna do anything much on this sop level inside of this, but we're gonna peek inside of this node just to get a sense of what's going on. I'm going to show you the main thing we're concerned about. I'm gonna go into this sop network here and I'm gonna make that full screen. The main thing going on that I want to show you is, on the left side here, we…

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