Learn How to Craft Game Effects using Houdini 15.5 & UE4.12 (Udemy.com)

An interesting overview of solid workflows for simulating effects for games. Sprite sheets are a great concept to utilize, and vertex animation is interesting but feels like a much more complex optimization. It's a good introduction to the concept at the very least.

The course was as described - an introduction for Houdini users making a transition from film to gaming. I wasn't ready for this but it exposed me to concepts that I realize must be adhered to for the efficiency requirements of gaming. And as always, it's a win (not time wasted) if I pick up a few nuggets along the way, e.g. I had never used the magnet/metaball nodes before. A suggestion for future tutorials: the audio could use some EQ. I think lowering the energy below 250Hz and increasing in the higher frequency will make the voice "crisper." I had to turn it up to hear it better and then it's just loud and somewhat muffled instead of pleasant and crisp :) Though, audio isn't bad compared to many tutorials I've watched.

Audio quality is almost bad, but definitely not good. Technical reasoning is weak. A good example is not explaining why render the smoke using RGB lights. Why are they spots and not directional? How does it effect the shader? Artist doesn't seem to understand why he did what he did.

A little too advanced for someone who is not a Houdini Artist and Unreal 4 artist, but still valuable if you're an experienced 3D Artist from another package. I enjoyed the attention to efficiency and some introductory explanations of why to lean more on GPU vs CPU.

The instructor does little more than quickly skim over already created projects. Even if you already have a high level of fluency in Houdini, there are much better free courses.

Great overview for people who already know Houdini and want to know how to apply it in a game engine! My only feedback would be that it would have been nice to have a section on some other Houdini to UE4 workflows. Things like flow maps for water, vector fields for particles, or similar.

very informative and a good Overview of Houdini+Unreal Engine. I really would love if you do more Courses, because you are a good Teacher too :-) Maybe a full Course about how to create different Effects in Houdini and bring them into Unreal, i mean that would be fantastic ^^

This is an excellent introduction at the given topic, effects for Unreal, and frankly, I would find a hard time trying to fit in more material in such short length. It´s obvious the author has a great insight of both Unreal and specially Houdini. I also appreciate the general approach explaining why and how to do things as opposed to a step-by-step mindless tutorial.

Stephen does a marvelous job of giving an overview of the basics of getting from Houdini to Unreal. For an intro and overview course, I learned a great deal of information. The example files he provides gives even more insight into how the effects are created. It is a great course to whet the appetite to start creating content with Houdini and Unreal!

Great introduction of Houdini to Unreal and what is available artists. The basics were explained instead of push the button and then do this with that button. A good overview of how an effect is created and then implemented. Thanks, look forward to more tutorials.