Rhino FLIP Simulation Houdini Files

Bring a full production-quality water FX shot into your Houdini workflow.
This project shows how I created a Rhino running through water in Houdini with efficient layering of FX and

What’s Included

• Full Houdini project files used to create the shot (incl. simulation caches for frame 1054)
• FLIP simulation setups (low-res base + high-res upres around the Rhino)
• Splash upres system using velocity filtering on existing splashes
• VDB clipping using camera's frustum to keep combining and meshing lightweight
• FX integration setups: wetmap for the Rhino & dripping water trails,
• Shading & Lookdev in Solaris using MaterialX & the Ocean Procedural LOP
• Layered rendering workflow including a “cheap beauty pass” setup for fast utility exports

Why It’s Useful

If you’ve ever tried running large-scale water simulations in Houdini, you know how resource-hungry and crash-prone they can be. This project demonstrates how to keep things efficient while still achieving cinematic detail.

Perfect For

• FX artists who want to study an advanced FLIP workflow
• Students and freelancers looking for reference setups
• Anyone who wants to dissect and reuse parts of the scene for their own projects

What's not Included:

• Environment used for rendering
  • Megascans assets (Rocks, Background Mountains)
  • Trees
• Rhino Animation Files
  • please download them on your own, as I cannot distribute them myself here
• Simulation Caches (only one frame included for final caches)
• Render Layers
• Nuke Script