Hello! My idea is very simple: a magical skill that summons mushrooms, causing them to grow from the earth, ripping through the soil beneath them. I might also include spores that trigger additional mushroom growth, but I’ll decide on that later. I’m aiming for a stylized effect since I’m working on a laptop, which limits the complexity of the simulations. I’m still unsure about textures and how I’ll approach them.

What I have for now:
1. Houdini setup (probably will do export in 2 parts, earth destruction and growing mashroom)
Things to do in this part:
- Create the mushroom growth animation with better stylized timing
- Make the ground more earth-like looking
- Animate the mushroom cap’s growth and add finer details

2. Unity Scene (URP)
Things to do there:
- Scene, camera, post-processing, timeline setup
- Choose the best export from Houdini
- Create simple VFX shaders?
- Add some VFX (Maybe I can make some magical dust too?)

Small update! Okay the thing is working, now I need to create some different variants, also still don't like a mashroom shape. For the materials, I would probably go with unity toon shade WIP example -

To do list update:
Add grass?
Digital Asset for variations
Particle VFX
Dust flipbook?
More work on the simulation
More work on the scene setup

Update, Scene is getting bettet!
Made some flipbooks and simple particles.
Grass is canceled
Next step: Figuring out HDA for unity. plagin is working! And I made some parameters in HOudini


And yes, mashrooms are blue now