Creating a Rocket Swarm with Procedural Volume Copying in Houdini

This tutorial will show you how to use procedural volumecopying to create a rocket-swarm that is both flexible and efficient. This will enable us to modify timing, positioning, scale, and other aspects of the effect without needing to recreate or resim it from scratch. We will create several basic pyro simulations to achieve this effect. Then, we will create a particle simulator with custom attributes that will be used as our copy points. Next, we will use the Copy SOP to place our pyro models correctly. To create rocket trails, we will be using VBD cloud modeling tools together with our particle simulation. We will then combine all the elements, shade them and render in Mantra. Software required: Houdini 130.447.