Using Houdini to do the cabin

Mehdi taught us how to build a wood cabin house, following the tutorial, I finish the first attempt. I met few questions while I was building the wood cabin, Mehdi helps me to solve them immediately.

The first question is how to set a new file.

The second question is the boolean doesn’t work, the problem is I didn’t put A as surface, B as solid.

while I was watching the tutorial I can’t understand what is normals inverted, I found a picture explain what it is clearly.

normals inverted

the third question is my procedural house disappear, the problem is I switch to the manual while I was doing it, I need to switch back to auto-update.

After the first attempt, I want to add wood planks to my cabin. I try another way I learn from CGI nerd, to build a cabin in wood plank directly. from the tutorial, I learned how to edit parameter’s interface, you can using float to create the parameter data you want.

it is really useful when you need to copy parameter, and help me to remind things clearly, don’t make myself confused.

my final wood cabin node looks like this.

and this is how my wood cabin looks like, I really want to make a window frame, but I don’t know how to delete the face between them, I will ask Mehdi in the future.