Procedural Dark Souls Mace Generator | Houdini 19.5 Tutorial
BECOME HOUDINI TECHNICAL ARTIST - PROCEDURAL MODELING
This is a FREE tutorial for those willing to become Houdini Technical Artists - Procedural Modeling - for game and animation industry.
Real-world productions require art-directionable technically-efficient tools; I'll create a Weapon Generator Houdini Tool (HDA) - inspired by 'Dark Souls' game from scratch with 0% manual modeling.
Starting from a blank scene, we´ll cover practical Houdini implementation for procedural modeling whilst sticking to Visual Target.
You can find similar tutos here:
SCI-FI SHAPE GENERATOR
Tuto Demo1: https://youtu.be/pZvGazgdh-8
Tuto Demo2: https://youtu.be/VIO041sUQIE
Download: https://houdinitechart.gumroad.com/l/jzwim
Credit for visual reference:
Shahzaib Khan
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4X4NrY
Format
- Video recording (46min) + Audio.
Content (46min)
1_Visual Target
2_Breakdown
3_Planning the Tech
4_Head Basic Shape
5_Head Randomize Size 1
6_Head Thickness and Blade Orienting
7_Instancing Blades
8_Head Base
9_Head Base Extrusion
10_HDA creation
11_Handle 1
12_Handle 2
13_Handle 3
14_Handle 4
15_Handle 5
16_Handle 6
17_Combining Head and Handle
18_Adding details 1
19_Adding details 2
20_Updating UI
21_Squashing Handle
22_Adding edge to blades
23_Tool review
Software
- I used Houdini 19.5 Indie (you should be fine with almost any version, though)
- You can follow along with free apprentice version (https://www.sidefx.com/download/)
Requisites
- You are familiar with 3D foundations (alternatively, you really enjoy painful learning experiences)
- You already covered the basics of Houdini on your own (beginner-intermediate Houdini knowledge)
- You know (or wanna know) what is a vector.
- You wanna become beyond average node-based Houdini TechArtist (we´ll solve modeling challenges through VEX), hence some code experience -in any language- is recommended.
- This is not FX, shading, rendering/visualization, batch processing, PDG, game integration.
Contact/Doubts/Help
https://techartworlds.com
You'll get FREE tutorial for Weapon Generator - 'Dark Souls' inspired. Target audience: 3D artists willing to upgrade to Technical Art Houdini Artists