Houdini Tutorial: Procedurally Create Detroit Agate with a Karma Shader @Entagma

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If layers over layers of car paint accumulate in the factory over the years they create grey rocks with magic hidden inside. Once you start to cut and polish these rocks all the individual color layers are revealed and create a color explosion. In this tutorial we'll build a VEX based Karma shader to mimic this gemstone-like look porcedurally inside of Houdini.

Download Scene File: entagma.com/downloads/H_DetroitAgate03.zip

00:50 Start to build the effect
01:10 Noise deformation
03:45 Turn the polygons into a SDF
04:30 Cut ridges
08:30 Finish the object
09:05 Create a seamless background
10:27 Solaris setup
13:20 Implement the shader
23:45 Mixing the material layers
26:00 Finishing touches

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