[UE4] Procedural Brooklyn Buildings in Houdini

lucim197

Hi guys,

It has been almost 6 months since I started to learn houdini. I have just finished a scene where all the buildings are generated procedural in Houdini. They have only minor differences but I think it's enough for now. I want to continue this project in future because there is room for improvement,  to make more variations and maybe to add some  roof props for example.
The textures are all made in Substance Painter or Substance Designer and it was rendered in Unreal Engine 4.


Arstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3obAND

All comments and suggestions are welcome.   




Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEg99X7YMlA

Lurcisia

Amazing work!! I'm very interested in procedurally generating buildings in Houdini and was quite curious about your work flow. Was this node based or was there lots of coding involved? Did you come up with this yourself or did you follow a tutorial, I'd love to know! 
Keep up the great stuff!

lucim197

@Lurcisia Thank you! I used some coding, VEX and Python, but not very much. Most of time I worked with nodes. I didn't follow a tutorial, but one tutorial that it helps me a lot on this (at the begining) was "Game Asset Creation with Houdini", available on Udemy.

lucasz

@lucim197

looks a bit too clean/perfect atm especially the sidewalk/street.

Best would be to add some debris/leaves from trees/general trash for the case you not just want to show the generator.

for the buildings im missing a bit of this

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://chicagowindowexpert.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/a-pattern.jpg&imgrefurl=http://chicagowindowexpert.com/2009/02/03/my-windows-leak/&docid=AOcrjLbYs1Av4M&tbnid=d5FquzasKboDPM:&vet=10ahUKEwiu7omPnqXgAhUBbbwKHcenBLgQMwhJKAowCg..i&w=620&h=288&client=firefox-b-ab&bih=858&biw=1540&q=dirt leaked window&ved=0ahUKEwiu7omPnqXgAhUBbbwKHcenBLgQMwhJKAowCg&iact=mrc&uact=8

siver

Looking good man! Really nice to see more and more people getting into Houdini.
It looks at little bit like my current project

lucim197

@lucasz thank you for your feedback! I agree that is too clean, the project it took me so long (I have been learning Houdini during this project) that I didn't want to spend more time on garbage for now. But I have hope that I will continue the project in the future and maybe to put the debris procedural on sidewalks/roads.
About the leaks from the windows' buildings, I put the decals procedural under the windows, and I said during the project "I will make them stronger or larger at the end".... but I completely forgot   .. now are very subtle.

lucim197

@siver I checked your project and It looks awesome! You used more VEX than me and you have more variation of the shapes' buildings, I want to try something like this in future  I think Houdini it's a very good software and maybe we will see more and more people using it. I'm looking forward to see your project progression.

Lurcisia

lucim197 said:

@Lurcisia Thank you! I used some coding, VEX and Python, but not very much. Most of time I worked with nodes. I didn't follow a tutorial, but one tutorial that it helps me a lot on this (at the begining) was "Game Asset Creation with Houdini", available on Udemy.

Thank you for sharing! I'm very curious to see what your work flow was like!

lucim197

Lurcisia said:

lucim197 said:

@Lurcisia Thank you! I used some coding, VEX and Python, but not very much. Most of time I worked with nodes. I didn't follow a tutorial, but one tutorial that it helps me a lot on this (at the begining) was "Game Asset Creation with Houdini", available on Udemy.

Thank you for sharing! I'm very curious to see what your work flow was like!

I will make a little breakdown soon. 

Lurcisia

lucim197 said:

Lurcisia said:

lucim197 said:

@Lurcisia Thank you! I used some coding, VEX and Python, but not very much. Most of time I worked with nodes. I didn't follow a tutorial, but one tutorial that it helps me a lot on this (at the begining) was "Game Asset Creation with Houdini", available on Udemy.

Thank you for sharing! I'm very curious to see what your work flow was like!

I will make a little breakdown soon. 

Cheers!

lucim197

@Lurcisia I finally made a little breakdown for this project    : https://80.lv/articles/001agt-006sdf-procedural-brooklyn-in-houdini/

Jack M.

Thanks for the breakdown. This is really cool.

lucim197

@Jack M. Thank you!

Lurcisia

lucim197 said:

@Lurcisia I finally made a little breakdown for this project    : https://80.lv/articles/001agt-006sdf-procedural-brooklyn-in-houdini/

Wonderful!! thank you very much!