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Learn more about making stylized rocks in Houdini. This rock tool won't be very advanced and would recommend the project GROT rock tool for a more advanced version. The idea is that we take a sphere and apply different noises and deformation on top of it to make it look more like a rock shape.

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CREATED BY

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SIMON VERSTRAETE

Simon is a tech Artist that loves building procedural tools and assets. By adding more and more procedural approaches to his workflow, he is able to build 3D models with speed and flexibility. During his studies at Digital Arts and Entertainment, he taught himself how to work with Houdini. After his studies, he started working on Ary and the Secret of Seasons at eXiin. Currently he is a Houdini freelancer and focuses on creating procedural content.

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COMMENTS

  • Mario_Leone 2 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    Great work! Would you suggest to use the "unreal_material" attribute always? It looks like it's definitely a good habit! Have you found some cases where you preferred the manual assignment in Unreal?

    • maitlandvt 2 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

      I wonder about this too. It seems like there are a couple of decent ways to connect houdini and unreal these days.

      It would be nice, i think if you could shuffle a basic material from a houdini asset to unreal, just as a starting point.

      Like, i tried just saving out a USD with a mtlx shader and loading that directly. It kind of worked out of the box. like, it picked up vertex colors, but there was a texture map which didn't get connected, so i still had to drag it into the shader.

      maybe this could work with a USD rop inside an HDA somehow?

  • SoakingRich 2 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

    The fact that the icon for the Flatten node in Houdini is a picture of earth being flattened is Hilarious. Wake up sheeple!

    • maitlandvt 2 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

      I flat ROTFLMAOed!

  • sokolmehmeti89 1 month, 3 weeks ago  | 

    I'm using Houdini Apprentice Non-Commercial 20.5.654. I don't have the "Transform From Centroid" node :(

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