Deborah R. Fowler
Houdini Lighting Overview
Posted Dec 12 2017
Updated on June 19 2025
LOOK DEV
***Lighting in Houdini (KARMA-CPU/GOLD XPU)
- Basics: Types
- Render basics (materials/shadows/render nodes)
- Instanced Lights
- Attenuation and Light Filter
- DOF (Depth of Field)
***Lighting in Houdini Redshift
Lighting in Houdini (MANTRA)
- Basics:
Types,
Attenuation
- Instancing (my favorite!)
- Instancing with
Geometry (read above section first)
- Linking (powerful but be careful!)
- Render basics
(materials/shadows/render nodes)
- Passes (not Layers) = lighting and Layers (not Passes) = geometry