hi guys,
i know this question is bad but i need some tipps for my decision.
for a project i start to work with houdini and lern to destroy buildings :-),
but i realized, that i need really good modelled objects.
so here is my question: which software is good for my goals in combination with houdini? i just would modelled parts and buildings. no animation,rigging and so.
Maybe you know some tutorials, where i can look and find for myself a good way to modell a building,which is good destroyable.

Thanks for reading and i hope i get some answers

cruzo

Houdini can model buildings and many other geometries easily. But if you want to use non-procedural 3d modeling software, any other major ones like Max, XSI would work fine.

thanks for the quick reply.
i know that i can modell in houdini, but i would more modell non-procedural.
in that case would you use box modelling or like in max the wall and windows assets? what is the best way to modell a full destroyable building?

Yeah I would use box modeling. Depending on how you want to destroy it, you could use pro cutter, rayfire, or dynamic fracturing inside Houdini, etc.

what about getting a procedural building generator from orbolt ?

While Houdini has a few shortcomings in traditional destructive modeling, creating buildings is one of the areas where the modeling toolset is actually quite good, even if you don't go down the procedural route.. so you might not need a companion product in the first place.

I suggest Max,it's working good.

I have great experience with Modo. Plus it is much cheaper than Autodesk products.

HOUDINI + Blender

There's always Wings.

do not forget Silo .

its development stopped years ago ..

( maybe because its devs couldnt anything more to it / make it better . )





.cheers