Slingshot IV - Houdini Tools for Artists & TDs (Full Version)

Slingshot IV

Slingshot makes you a faster, more organised, more effective artist and technical director. Its the tools, tricks and strategies in your back pocket that allow you to get things setup and done faster. These are my personal tools, scripts and setups that I use every single day. You're buying a slice of me with this toolset. See below for a full list of included tools, scripts and otls that are sure to make your time in Houdini better!

Slingshot is designed for Houdini 19.5 and above!

Are you a business looking to run multiple seats? Get in touch with me on LinkedIn for deals and deployment options!

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The Slingshot guarantee is simple. You buy this version, the next one is free. Slingshot is a fluid set of tools that I bring with me when I go to work. They have been added to pipelines at different studios that I've never worked at due to their simplicity and accessibility. Your purchase helps me do it better each time, and while there is no guaranteed development pipeline (Slingshot III and Slingshot IV had about 18 months between them), you can be confident that the next iteration will be bigger, better and faster than the last!

Slingshot IV (Full Version) contains:

Save Tools (File menu & Shelf):

• Slingshot Save As Menu

• Version Up
• Take Up
• Slingshot Save

Project Creation & Control Tools

• Project Creation Suite
• Shot Setting
• Set Globals
• Cycle Update

General Tools:

• Create Render Nodes From Selected
• Local Merge
• Prefix / Suffix
• Attribute To COPs
• Better Noise (Menu)
  • Improved Turbulent Noise
  • Improved Voronoi Noise
  • Improved Worley Noise
• Clip Along Attribute
• Clip By UV
• Deform Points To UV
• Peak By Intersection
• Quick Bend (Menu)
• Random Material
• Split By Attribute
• Warp Plane By UV
• Copy Array
• Copy To Curve

Environments Tools:

• Quick Instances
• Layout To Instances
• Dunes
• Sinkhole

Effects Tools:

• Particles Tools:
  • Quick Particles
  • Particles Advect by Pyro
  • POP Forces Menu
    • Layered POP Forces
    • Orient To Surface On Collision
    • Orbit Around Axis
    • Advect By Velocity Field
• Growth Tools:
  • Attribute Blur Method
  • Attribute Transfer Method
  • Near Points (with Age Attribute) Method
• Pyro Tools:
  • Pyro Setup Menu
  • Pyro Forces Menu
    • Layered Disturbance
    • Layered Turbulence
  • Dual Rest Fields
  • Visualize Velocity
• Rigid Body Tools:
  • Quick Rigid Bodies
  • RBD Constraints Menu
  • Boolean Fracture
  • Inject Rigid Body Objects
• Liquids Tools:
  • Flip Tank
  • Droplets
  • Growing Fluid
• Vellum Tools:
  • Dynamic Pin
  • Falling Papers
• Collision Tools:
  • VDB Collision
  • Collision From Spheres

Lighting Tools:

• Camera Focus
• Camera Fog
• Camera Info
• Camera Particles
• Gobo
• Lights From Points (Menu)

Scripting Tools:

• Python Helper
  • Get Node Name
  • Get Node Position
  • Get Node Color
  • Get Node Path
  • Get Node Name
  • Get Node Category
  • Detect Version
• Windows String Formatter

Templates:

• Templates (Menu)
• Add Template

RMB Attribute Menu:

• Value Over Time
• Random Number
• Random Multiplier
• Random Rotation

HDAs:

• SOPs:
  • Age SL
  • Camera Data SL
  • Copy Patch To Quads SL
  • Create Gobo SL
  • Create Lights To Points SL
  • Diverse Scatter SL
  • Divide To Quadrants SL
  • Get Anim Range SL
  • Instance From Filepath SL
  • Map Whitewater Attribs SL
  • Paper Generator SL
  • Unpack SL
  • Viz Flip Attributes SL
  • Wood Fracture SL
• VOPs:
  • Modify Components SL
• DOPs:
  • Advect By VOP SL
  • Create Ground Planes SL
• ROPs:
  • Bake Camera SL
  • Render CTRL SL
• OBJ:
  • Camera Data SL
  • File Importer SL
  • Hip Merger SL
• COP2:
  • Checkerboard SL
  • Contact Sheet SL
  • Exponential Glow SL
  • Ramp SL

VEX:

• Slingshot | Map X Range
• Slingshot | Map Y Range
• Slingshot | Map Z Range
• Slingshot | Point N At Input 2
• Slingshot | Point N Away From Input 2
• Slingshot | Blend Between Consistent Meshes
• Slingshot | Offset Along Velocity
• Slingshot | Random Point Scale
• Slingshot | Cull Points By Amount

Premium Version:
The premium version contains an ever growing library of scene files to help you put Slingshot's tools in context and see some effective use cases. Currently this list includes:

• Advect Particles By Volumes
• Better Noise
• Contained Smoke
• Falling Papers
• Growth Solvers
• Inject RBD Objects
• Rain Droplets
• Mountains
• RSJ Beams
  

Expect even more in the future!