A technical deep-dive into the possibilities of the Houdini Terrain tools when they came out in Houdini 16.
I tried to recreate different geological environments with layers for export into game engines.
The different environments were made into tools to used by Artists and world designers.
For this exporting I created an HDA that analyze a heightfield and cut it up into multiple heightmaps.
I created three different tests:
Namibian Desert:
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Result:
Scottish Highlands:
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Result:
Forest with paint-able river:
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Result:
