This session will present an overview of the destruction techniques used for creating game-ready assets.  It will cover problems that were experienced during production and what subnetworks and tools were created to solve them. These problems range from generating simple consistent debris, to translating complicated rigid body simulation into shader data, accelerated by the gpu. This session is intended for tech and visual effects artists of all levels who are interested in destruction simulation.

Caitlyn Trout is a technical artist at Gearbox Software. She discovered technical art while in school at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy and afterwards interned at EA Tiburon. She’s been at Gearbox for the last 6 years contributing to multiple AAA titles including Borderlands: the Presequel, Battleborn and Borderlands 3. Her focus in the past has been coding art pipeline tools for multiple software packages but has shifted into pioneering new techniques on the research and development tech art team.

Working on the Ghost Recon franchise, Benoit and his team developed around Houdini an innovative and dedicated toolchain to shape the world and produce a wide variety of environments. This lecture will describe the techniques and technology behind this work and how they gave the artists the right tools to control large scale landscapes and small details. He’ll explain the procedural approach they adopted to create terrain, roads, forests, rivers and settlements, and how all those tools are connected to each other. He'll provide an overview of the tools and also the dedicated Houdini pipeline developed over years to create AAA game environments at Ubisoft Paris.

Benoit Martinez started in the video game industry in 1999, since then he's been lead artist, art director and technical director. In 2011 he joined Ubisoft Paris and he introduced Houdini in production. Since then he worked on Ghost Recon : Wildlands (2017) and on the newly announced Ghost Recon : Breakpoint. Benoit is in charge of the environment team…

In this video, we discuss the three key constructs in PDG, how the PDG graph fundamentally works at a technical level, how to perform basic customizations and additions on top of the PDG platform, the basics of how PDG interacts with existing schedulers on the market, and end with some tips for common pitfalls.

In Houdini, networks of nodes can be easily wrapped up into Houdini Digital Assets then shared with other artists. With the Houdini Engine, these assets can be loaded into the Unity game editor with procedural controls available to artists.

The results can then be further manipulated in Unity. Anytime a parameter is changed on the asset, the Houdini Engine is called upon to "cook" the network of nodes and publish the results to Unity. This allows for deep integration of Houdini Digital Assets into a Unity game development pipeline. The game content is baked out when the game is published.

Learn more at https://www.sidefx.com/games/ and https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini-engine/unity-plug-in/

Today we look at drawing symmetry. This small but powerful setup allows to create complex symmetrical figures with just a few strokes.

I am currently doing some brain storming what interesting tools one can build, to utilize a tablet pen. For that research I got myself a wacom intuos pro. I remembered seing different applications doing symmertry drawing.

I wanted to see if I could build a simple prototype inside Houdini to replicate that functionality.



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Wanted to make this one video to be one place to go when talking about modeling without subdividing mesh and rounding edges.
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03:30 triangulating our mesh
04:06 autoseam node
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Создание процедурной локации - масштабный процесс, требующий от Houdini артиста большой изобретательности и глубокого понимания Houdini. Один из новых алгоритмов, появившихся в Houdini - это алгоритм коллапса волновой функции (Wave Function Collapse), позволяющий генерировать процедурные паттерны на основе библиотеки элементов или небольшого референсного фрагмента.

На примере разработки локации железнодорожной развязки наш преподаватель Игорь Харитонов показал, как Wave Function Collapse может быть применен для создания сложной сети железнодорожных путей.

На стриме вы узнаете:
- Что же такое Wave Function Collapse. Почему такое страшное название и причем тут квантовая механика;
- Виды WFC алгоритма и особенность его реализации в Houdini;
- Типовой workflow для WFC. Генерация путей;
- Какие ограничения есть и как их обойти. Что может и чего не может WFC;
- Что такое Find Shortest Path и как допилить коробочное решение;
- Как правильно нагнетать детализацию - рельсы, шпалы, столбы, провода и пр.

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In this dungeon lesson, the WaveFunctionCollapse algorithm is used to define the base shapes of a game level then a Houdini Digital Asset is built to generat...

Tutorial done to promote procedural asset design with houdini
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This video will show how to make a python tool that spawns rocks and let them fall down. It can be a fun and fast way to create scenes with a lot of debris and destruction. In the video I will start from scratch so you can follow along, I do recommend that you have a good understanding of Houdini before following the video.

This tool was made during the Houly challenge and took around 2 hours to build. It was a real fun tool to make and has a lot of potential. The tool is more a prototype of an idea, this shows how to make interactive tools with Houdini.

If you want to challenge yourself this can be a cool tool to keep improving on. Like adding more debris details, better collision detection, more interactive options,.....

More resources for Python states
https://youtu.be/nS4FSMEas-I
https://youtu.be/6iOGo_xFymw
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/state_events.html

Houdini Metal staircase

The July 2020 update video for the HOUDINI Procedural Asset Production Masterclass.
This class is currently in development and bound to release in the 4th quarter of 2020.

In this video I demonstrate several modules that will be build during the course. Where I'll run participants through the process of assembling and configuring a Houdini Digital Asset that constructs a staircase from instances and blueprints that can be loaded directly in the Unreal Engine 4.

The Instance Assembler uses a set of pre-made static meshes and blueprints which I will provide and explain how to assemble procedurally using the Houdini Engine.
While in an optional bonus module to the masterclass, I will teach you how to build the procedural generator that constructed the staircase tile-set.

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Gradient descent is an optimization algorithm used to minimize some function by iteratively moving in the direction of steepest descent as defined by the negative of the gradient.

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Pragmatic VEX series is aimed to increase the technical capacity of the artists and TDs which will allow them to tackle more complex production shots with complete control and ease by acquiring a deeper technical understanding of how things work in Houdini at the lowest level with a strong applied focus on high-end feature film visual effects production.

Created by Yunus "animatrix" Balcioglu, Senior FX Technical Director with experience from studios such as Industrial Light & Magic and MPC. Feature film credits include Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Aquaman, Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and many more.

- path by steepness cost
- terrain deformed by road geometry

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Разбираем проекты с геймджема SideFX.

Ссылки на игры:
https://terzalo.itch.io/zero-grace
https://cilliancreates.itch.io/xenoverrun

Таймкоды:
00:00 - Вступление
04:00 - Zero Grace - геймплей
19:22 - Обзор проектов Zero grace
48:40 - XenOVERun - геймплей
54:18 - Обзор проектов XenOVERun

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Разбираем проекты с геймджема SideFX.

Ссылки на игры:
https://lamapotato.itch.io/habitatescape
https://suzu8.itch.io/lightup-project

Таймкоды:
00:00 - Habitat escape - геймплей
11:11 - Обзор проектов Habitat escape
35:32 - Light up - геймплей
40:14 - Обзор проектов Light up

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