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Art Breakdown Houdini

Procedural Monadnock Breakdown – Houdini

This blog post will break down the Houdini section of the Procedural Monadnock project. You will be able to see the Pathfinding tools used to carve out the trails and the system used to create ID maps. Link to Portfolio Post here: Trail Pathfinding For this project, I revisited a smaller endeavor from earlier this year, […]

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Art Breakdown Houdini Portfolio Unreal

Procedural Monadnock

Stated Goal The goal was to create a procedural framework that efficiently populates landscapes with assets based on terrain characteristics, allowing for easy customization and fast iteration. Description This project has three primary parts to it, each of which have their own dedicated breakdowns: 1.) Two PCG systems that populates a landscape based on a […]

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Art Breakdown Houdini Prototypes

Procedural Monadnock – A WIP Unreal/Houdini Project

Description Stated Goal My goal is to create a procedural framework that efficiently populates landscapes with assets based on terrain characteristics, allowing for easy customization and fast iteration. This framework will seamlessly integrate features from both Houdini and Unreal, while maintaining a high level of realism. Background Through a conversation with a mentor over the […]

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Houdini Prototypes

Experimenting with Road Generation in Houdini

Description Goal The goal of this project is to generate the shortest possible path between two points on a generated landscape. This would allow for fast and dynamic road generation that would follow the terrain. Algorithm Result Challenges Data Structures Originally my goal was to implement the A* Algorithm in Houdini from scratch. One of […]