Procedural Race Tracks Houdini 17.518 and Houdini Engine

Procedural Race Tracks – Houdini 17.5/18 and Houdini Engine, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 253 lectures, based on 525 reviews, and has 3725 subscribers.

You will learn about Procedural Modeling in Houdini 17.5 Houdini Engine for Unity 3D and Unreal Engine 4 Create Houdini Digital Assets in a Production proven way for Games How to use Houdini to create Procedural models to save you time during you game productions How to Set up HDAs in Unity and Unreal so you procedurally generate Collision Meshes, Materials, UVs, and more! How to Scatter large amounts of Foliage onto your Terrains How to use Houdini Engine and Unitys Tree Prototypes How to create Textures with Houdini This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginning Level Designers or Unity 3D users wanting to automate their Level Creation processes or Unreal Engine users wanting to automate their Level Creation processes with Houdini Engine or Individuals wanting to learn everything about how to use the Houdini Engine or Individuals wanting to boost their Houdini skill sets It is particularly useful for Beginning Level Designers or Unity 3D users wanting to automate their Level Creation processes or Unreal Engine users wanting to automate their Level Creation processes with Houdini Engine or Individuals wanting to learn everything about how to use the Houdini Engine or Individuals wanting to boost their Houdini skill sets.

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Summary

Title: Procedural Race Tracks – Houdini 17.5/18 and Houdini Engine

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 253

Number of Published Lectures: 249

Number of Curriculum Items: 254

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 250

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

Procedural Modeling in Houdini 17.5

Houdini Engine for Unity 3D and Unreal Engine 4

Create Houdini Digital Assets in a Production proven way for Games

How to use Houdini to create Procedural models to save you time during you game productions

How to Set up HDAs in Unity and Unreal so you procedurally generate Collision Meshes, Materials, UVs, and more!

How to Scatter large amounts of Foliage onto your Terrains

How to use Houdini Engine and Unitys Tree Prototypes

How to create Textures with Houdini

Who Should Attend

Beginning Level Designers

Unity 3D users wanting to automate their Level Creation processes

Unreal Engine users wanting to automate their Level Creation processes with Houdini Engine

Individuals wanting to learn everything about how to use the Houdini Engine

Individuals wanting to boost their Houdini skill sets

Target Audiences

Beginning Level Designers

Unity 3D users wanting to automate their Level Creation processes

Unreal Engine users wanting to automate their Level Creation processes with Houdini Engine

Individuals wanting to learn everything about how to use the Houdini Engine

Individuals wanting to boost their Houdini skill sets

Have you ever wanted to speed up your level creation using Procedural Techniques?  Have you ever tried to use Houdini or the Houdini Engine but hit road blocks that prevented you from being productive with the two applications?  Then this course is for you!

Throughout this course we are going walk through every step of the way so it is not confusing at all.  You will gain the confidence to begin building your own procedural race track tools for use inside of Unity 3d and Unreal Engine 4.

The course starts out by giving individuals new to Houdini, a quick start guide to using Houdini by teaching the basics of navigation, UI, modeling and creating Houdini Digital Assets.  Once armed with that new knowledge we move onto the next level and start building out our Track tools.

With the Track tools we will learn how to effectively build a set of HDAs that will generate a Track complete with UV’s, the Track bumpers, and the Track Guard Rails.  Through that section of the Course we will see how we can detect the direction of a turn in the Track so we can place either a Track Bumper or a Track Guard Rail.  This will begin to open up the power of using Proceduralism in your game productions.

With the Track in place we will walk through the process of creating Procedural Terrains with Houdini and the Houdini Engine.  We will learn how to hook up terrain layers so we can texture our terrains in Unity and in Unreal. 

Once our Terrains are ready to go we will walk through the process of efficiently creating and Scattering foliage using the Houdini Engine.  We look at how to utilize Unity’s Detail object system with Houdini Engine and how to use Unreal’s  grass system.

To conclude the course we build out a couple more procedural props and learn how to create textures with Houdini using its own Compositing Operators. 

This course gives you a complete look at how to build a procedural pipeline for your games productions using Houdini 17.5, the Houdini Engine 3.4 and the Game Engine of your choice!

If you are looking to learn Houdini and Houdini Engine for Games Development then this Course is for you!

Note:  Creating HDAs in the Apprentice version of Houdini will not work with Houdini Engine.  An Indie License or above is required.  But all the modeling and workflows still apply, will just have to export the Track pieces from Houdini Apprentice to OBJ.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Project Overview

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: Pre-Requisites for this Course

Chapter 2: Installing Houdini and the Houdini Engine

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Where to get the Houdini Application

Lecture 3: Installing Houdini

Lecture 4: Creating a Houdini Project

Lecture 5: Using Houdini Projects

Lecture 6: Installing the Houdini Engine in Unity 3D

Lecture 7: Installing the Houdini Engine in Unreal Engine

Lecture 8: Where to find the Houdini Engine Documentation

Lecture 9: Conclusion

Chapter 3: Houdini Basics

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Navigation in Houdini

Lecture 3: Overview of the Houdini User Interface

Lecture 4: Customizing the User Interface

Lecture 5: Creating and Working with Nodes

Lecture 6: Component Display

Chapter 4: The Basics of Houdini Engine and Houdini Digital Assets

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Installing the Indie-Pixel Framework

Lecture 3: Creating a Basic HDA

Lecture 4: Adding Parameters to our HDA

Lecture 5: Import into Unity

Lecture 6: Import into Unreal

Lecture 7: Creating the Road Cone – Part 1

Lecture 8: Creating the Road Cone – Part 2

Lecture 9: Creating the Road Cone – Part 3

Lecture 10: Creating the Road Cone – Part 4

Lecture 11: Creating the Road Cone – Part 5

Lecture 12: Test in Unity

Lecture 13: Test in Unreal

Lecture 14: Conclusion

Chapter 5: Tool Kit Planning

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Gathering Reference

Lecture 3: Defining our Tool Set

Lecture 4: Installing the Game Dev Tools into Houdini

Lecture 5: Conclusion

Chapter 6: Building the Track Tool

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating the Track HDA and User Curve

Lecture 3: Generating the Track Geometry

Lecture 4: Generating the Track Geometry – Houdini 18

Lecture 5: Adding Parameters to our Track Geometry

Lecture 6: Test in Unity

Lecture 7: Test in Unreal

Lecture 8: Generating the Side Lines

Lecture 9: Generating the Side LInes – Houdini 18

Lecture 10: Creating Clean UVs for the Track Geometry

Lecture 11: Creating a Helper Utility

Lecture 12: Adding Vertex Colors

Lecture 13: Test in Unity

Lecture 14: Test in Unreal

Lecture 15: Conclusion

Chapter 7: Fixing the Track Tool

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Fixing the Open Curve Issue

Lecture 3: Surprise Bonus Lecture!!

Lecture 4: Surprise Bonus Lecture!! – Houdini 18

Lecture 5: Conclusion

Chapter 8: Utilizing HDA Inputs & Debugging

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Setting up the HDA

Lecture 3: Updating the Track Tool

Lecture 4: Unity Test

Lecture 5: Unreal Test

Lecture 6: Debugging with the Houdini Engine

Lecture 7: Conclusion

Chapter 9: Creating the Track Bumpers

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Setting up the HDA

Lecture 3: Measuring Curve Length

Lecture 4: Detecting Turn Direction

Lecture 5: Joining the Curves

Lecture 6: Creating the Bumper Geo – Part 1

Lecture 7: Creating the Bumper Geo – Part 2

Lecture 8: Creating the Bumper Geo – Part 3

Lecture 9: Creating the Bumper Geo – Part 4

Lecture 10: Section Errata – @Outside Attribute Fix and Explanation

Lecture 11: Creating the Bumper Geo – Part 5

Lecture 12: Unity Test

Lecture 13: Unreal Test

Lecture 14: Conclusion

Chapter 10: Houdini Core Concepts – Curve Directions and Vectors

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating Flow Normals

Lecture 3: Creating Curve Directions

Lecture 4: Conclusion

Chapter 11: Creating the Gaurd Rails

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Setting up the HDA

Lecture 3: Offsetting the Rail Path

Lecture 4: Creating the Guard Rail Components

Lecture 5: Creating the Guard Rail Components – Part 2

Lecture 6: Rail Profile

Instructors

Indie – Pixel
Technical Artist / Programmer / 3D Artist

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