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Video tutorials

Eight short videos covering everything from "first paint stroke" to "crawling ivy on a temple wall." All clips are hosted on YouTube and embed inline. Click to play.

Getting started

4:12
01 — Install the HDA
Drop the asset into Houdini and open the Ivy Scatter panel.
basics
6:48
02 — Your first scatter
Paint a mask on a ground plane and scatter grass.
basics
5:30
03 — The asset tray
Per-asset weights, hide/show, and ordering.
basics
7:21
04 — Sessions and Recache
Save your paint state and rebuild caches without losing strokes.
basics

Density & transformation

9:04
05 — Density, Min Spacing, Min Distance
The three knobs that control how busy your scatter feels.
density
11:18
06 — Jitter, rotation, scale
Make 30 grass blades look like 300 with the Transformation tab.
transformation

Ivy generation

12:50
07 — Vine networks & leaf clusters
Branch count, length, twist, leaf density.
ivy
14:33
08 — Crawling ivy on a temple wall
End-to-end: surface, mask, vines crawling along geometry.
ivy
Where do these come from? Videos are hosted on YouTube and embedded here so you don't need an account. New uploads land on this page automatically once published from the admin upload page.