Environments vol.1-Houdini Height Fields

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In this online course, the viewer will learn how to use Houdini’s Height Field tools to generate terrains and geometry, aimed for environment creation.

Not only will the most used Height Field nodes will be explained, but also we will take an in-depth look at how the tools work, what kind of information is expected as input and how to make the most out of the information output from these tools.

This course has been designed for beginner to intermediate Houdini users, or anyone interested in leveraging Houdini’s powerful terrain tools to create environments for Matte Painting, Illustration, Games, Architecture or simply generating digital art.

After viewing this course, people can expect to be able to fluently use the Height Field tools to create almost any kind of terrain imaginable, being realistic, stylized or even geometric or abstract.

The main takeaways after viewing this tutorial are:

- Thorough understanding of how Height Fields work within Houdini

- A complete understanding of the process of terrain creation from modeling to compositing.

- Ability to model very detailed terrains using Houdini’s native tools.

- Ability to create extremely accurate and realistic terrains using real-world data.

- Understanding of how to output generated terrains as geometry and images for use in external and third-party applications.

- A basic understanding of how to composite a multi-layer render.

Course Structure

Chapter 1: Displacement and Height Fields

Introduction

Geometry displacement part 1

Geometry displacement part 2

Height Fields explained

Chapter 2: Basic Height Field building blocks

Noise and Distort

Blur and Clip

Project and Terrace

Chapter 3: Masking techniques

Draw Mask and Mask by object

Mask by Feature

Chapter 4: Simulating natural processes

Heigh Field Erode

Height Field Slump

Chapter 5: Using real-world data

Capturing real-world data with MapBox

Chapter 6: Outputting Height Field data

Height Field Output

Convert, Quickshade and Copy Layer nodes

Chapter 7: Final Project, modeling the terrain

Creating the base Dune terrain

Adding details to the terrain

Creating natural looking masks

Creating a tileable Dune Midground

Laying out the Midground Dunes

Creating a Backdrop for the scene

Creating the background Mountains

Chapter 8: Final Project, Lighting, Shading and Rendering

Lighting the scene

Creating base shaders

Creating textures based on terrain layers

Creating the background sky

Rendering the scene

Chapter 9: Final Project, Compositing

Setting up your composite

Creating a template for your CG layers

Color correcting the image

Adding vignetting and grain

Writing out your final composite

Chapter 10: Bonus chapter, dust simulations

Dust emitter

Dust simulation

Dust material and render

Purchase Price: $49.00

Released on: 01/29/2022

Updated on: 01/29/2022

Category: Essentials, FXs, Modeling, Rendering

Total Duration: 3h 48m 31s

Level: From Beginner to Intermediate

Language: en

The author provided for you some example files. Example files can range from 3d Scenes to Photoshop projects, from Premiere projects to code. They are very helpful to understand more the concepts explained in the course.

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Tools used: Houdini, Houdini 18.5

Prerequisites: Basic Houdini Knowledge

Tags: Houdinifx, Houdini, Environment creation, landscape, realistic landscape, Height Fileds, Environment with Houdini, Desert Landscape, Desert wind, Houdini Height Fields