Creating Procedural Landscapes With Houdini And Unreal Engine

Creating Procedural Landscapes With Houdini And Unreal Engine

Welcome to mastering Houdini Heightfields for Game Development. This course will teach you valuable skills and take your open-world designs to a new level. We will guide you through sizing your landscapes for Unreal Engine or Unity. We look at how to use geometry as a mask to customize your landscapes. Using masks and landscape layers helps create complexity for increased realism. We then show how to create a landscape material with Unreal Engines Material Editor. Layered materials can add depth and realism to our virtual terrains. We then show how to instance foliage with our landscape material. Foliage adds complexity and life to your game environments. Get ready to up your game development journey and create immersive worlds. Join us now and embark on this epic adventure of mastering Houdini Heightfields!

Creating Procedural Landscapes With Houdini And Unreal Engine

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In lesson one, we learn how to correctly size our landscapes for Unreal Engine or Unity. We learn how to use geometry as a mask for customizing your landscapes. Then we get an overview of use nodes like Heightfield Erode, Heightfield Mask by Feature, and Heightfield Flow. We learn how to customize our landscape layers with masks. We cover creating a procedural pipeline, and how to create a Houdini Digital Asset.

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In lesson two, we learn how to set up our Unreal Engine Project. We examine project settings for creating cinematic visuals. We add in a Sun And Sky, Environment Heightfog, and a Post-Process Volume. We cover how to set up our Exposure Settings correctly for high-quality rendering. We then import our Houdini Landscape as a Houdini Digital Asset. We learn how to create a Landscape Material Master and use the layers embedded in our landscape. We then show we can create a Material Instance.

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