u/Remarkable-Dream-507

Hey guys , I have been learning houdini for months, not for work, I have a job but I just learn houdini as hobby for me.

But I'm really fedup and lost, as sometimes I found myself needing other subjects to know before completing a small project and you know houdini , each subject is an ocean of knowledge and I think I burned out with this method.

For example, I'm doing small pyro exercices, at some point I need to understand and see difference so I need to wedge right ? to see variants..Well I go to learn PDG and then I forgot about the initial project and so on for each smaller project I start.

same for flip, I completed my sim and need to render, but don't know solaris, I open to learn solaris and get there then unable to complete, and forget the flip sim etc etc.

there's also something in between I need to know, I'm lost at how to proceed, Houdini unlike max or other softwares is very deep

Hey excuse this stupid question but as noob, when I download assets from sketchab, mainly moving animals to use for flip, pyro etc, I don’t know if I should retime the animation or not ?

What is the clue that the fx is unstable when doing it on something either too fast , or maybe too small or too big ?

Like would the fx in question be too chaotic ?

It means I should run the sim before knowing if the animal animation asset is too fast or not ?