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GAME DEVELOPMENT

Game developers face a growing demand to build huge immersive worlds populated with vast amounts of content. In order for studios to achieve great gameplay while meeting deadlines and containing costs, a procedural approach using Houdini offers a smarter way to create quality games.

REALTIME FX

Bring feature film quality FX into your game with Houdini’s award-winning particle and dynamics tools. Houdini is ideal for prototyping in-game experiences using particles, fractured rigid body dynamics, fluids and more. Export to vertex caches, sprites, vectors, and flow maps to create optimized FX for your game.

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ENVIRONMENTS

Houdini makes it easy to create large scale environments using an art directable procedural workflow. Rapidly iterate throughout a project’s lifecycle to bring your environments to life.

TERRAINS

Procedural terrain generation in Houdini uses heightfields to quickly layer shapes, add noise and run erosion simulations. Using a workflow similar to compositing, you can quickly achieve realistic terrains for use in your game engine.

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PROCEDURAL MODELING

Whether you are building procedural content from scratch - or processing hi-res meshes from a sculpted or photogrammetry model - Houdini is a great tool for quickly delivering game-friendly artwork.

SIDEFX LABS TOOLS

The SideFX Labs Toolset (formerly Game Development Toolset) is a collection of shelf tools and assets designed to speed up game workflows in Houdini. Developed by expert Technical Artists at SideFX, these tools range from managing LOD creation and texture baking to generating vertex animation textures for a wide range of FX.

**MESH TILER**
Take a collection of meshes distributed on a planar surface, and make sure the meshes are configured in a tileable layout.

**TEXTURE SHEETS**
This node helps with the generation of Flipbooks/Texture Sheets. Including the generation of normals.

**VERTEX ANIMATION**
Export simulation data to texture files. This allows for effective vertex shader playback of your high resolution simulation.

**SIMPLE BAKER**
A Wrapper for the Games Baker at the SOP level. Takes a low mesh and a high mesh as the 2 inputs.

**OSM IMPORTER**
This node efficiently loads the Open Street Map files with tagged attributes on the buildings and streets.

**IMPOSTER TEXTURES**
The impostor tool creates texture sheets to fake 3D objects in your game engine.

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CINEMATICS

With Houdini’s rich history in feature film effects, it is the perfect tool for impactful cinematics and game trailers. Along with Houdini’s deep VFX feature set, powerful lighting tools and the Mantra renderer provide a high-quality and efficient look development pipeline.

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Unreal

Open the door to procedural workflows with Houdini Engine for UE4. Load Houdini Digital Assets into the Unreal Editor and manipulate parameters to get the right look for your game.

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Unity

Create procedural game art using Houdini Digital Assets loaded into the Unity game editor. Create unique environments and props that can be modified using parameters on the asset.

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Houdini Engine for Unity and Unreal licenses are now available for FREE!

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