Houdini 20 Tube Grooming Tool - tonicoChan HDALCs

This is a INTERMEDIARY tool, so I recommend you have some previous understanding of Houdini to use it.

THIS TOOL DOES NOT TURN YOUR SCULPT IN TO A GROOM, it's made to groom using tubes, so you can match your sculpt!

**FILES IN HDALC FORMAT**

THE CHARACTER MODEL IS NOT INCLUDED, ONLY THE GROOM

Promo video:https://vimeo.com/974432758

With the tool, you can:

• Convert Guides to tubes.
• Paint the tube's profile and thickness.
• Twist the tubes as you like, without intersecting the root with the skin.
• "MODEL" custom tubes right on your character.
• Blendshape existing tubes.
• Have per tube density if you need.
• Generate hairs or guides from those tubes without intersection or crossgen (a clump steals hairs from another).
• Match exactly the shape of the tube on the hair gen (if the shape is really complex, you can get around 80 ~~ 90% there).
• The generated tubes can be auto rigged with a simple chain (alpha).
• Deform the final groom using the rigged tubes (alpha).

Buying this product, you will get:

• The groom from the promo video.

• Example file explaining the whole workflow and possibilitIes so you can build on top for your own pipeline.
• 5 HDALCs on indie format: Guide orient, Tube to Guides, Guide Volumize, TubeRig (alpha) and HairDeform with tube (alpha)

• Video tutorials showing how everything works
  

Any future updates are free!

Special thanks to my friend Emanuel for the model: https://www.instagram.com/emanuelv25/

And a HUGE thanks to Fabricio who help me out with quaternions math !

Lighting of the final render made by: https://www.lifanimation.com/

You can find me on:

• https://www.artstation.com/uscas
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-rodrigo-8b8474211/
• https://www.instagram.com/artoflucasrodrigo/