Thanks! I couldn't find anything except this one --> kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKvFZGWubqdla9U I hope it helps

@@plfxtd Thank you so much for sending the link! I'll check it out.

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TNX! The last example was just three grass blades. It’s fine under one million, but it would be overkill to scatter the whole environment with that method. I would use it for hero close-ups or mid-shots in specific areas where large grass clumps would penetrate environment objects too much. Cheers

Sorry, it's not for sale

just tested in Maya 2023.3 and it's working

Thanks, I just asked my boss and he says you can contact him about your game environment [email protected]

@@plfxtd ok cool ty

@@plfxtd I have just sent an email to matt

I haven't done anything character related in Houdini, sorry

www.sidefx.com/learn/getting_started kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJfMq4dpa56abJI

@@plfxtd you answered that one quickly, thank you, appreciate it tons! :D

@@plfxtdThanks for the YT link, I saw another lower quality presentation from them, this is fantastic!

Good question! PCG: I haven’t tested PCG myself, but I have watched videos of people using it and the Epic GDC2023 talk. Based on that, I think if your project is Unreal only - it’s most likely a good assets scattering solution for a small game dev team/project where you don’t need to integrate much stuff into your pipeline. Also, it’s easy to get started with it, especially if you are familiar with building Blueprint Networks in Unreal. I believe PCG is limited to procedural asset scattering, but it probably would be faster in performance than any Houdini Engine-based scattering solution. Especially if in the future Epic makes PCG computation on GPU. Also, PCG has the ability to work at runtime in your game. Currently, PCG is in experimental mode and has only 40+ nodes to work with. It looks very promising, but I think it’s too early to rely on it in production. I hope Epic is serious about PCG and won’t forget about it in the same way as they did with the experimental Procedural Foliage Spawner. HOUDINI ENGINE: It’s a production-ready/proven Procedural World Generation solution and not limited to that and used by many companies (Ubisoft, EA, Activision, Insomniac Games, Epic Games and etc.). You can generate, scatter, modify, simulate and so on. Also, all the tasks could be distributed on the farm via the power of Houdini PDG (good for open worlds). Houdini has 1000+ nodes and with CPU Multithreaded VEX and GPU-powered OpenCL - you can build an extra unlimited amount of nodes; basically - the cosmos is the limit. Houdini Engine is open source and you can integrate Houdini with it into any DCC or Game Engine. There are publicly available plugins for Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Unity and Unreal Engine. It means that any procedural tools that you build in Houdini could also be used outside of Houdini. It’s hard to learn Houdini, but to me it was easier than learning to build Unreal Blueprint Networks. I hope that helps.

@@plfxtd Thank you for the detailed reply. I agree. This project intrigued me to look into houdini engine. Like you said, sky is the limit I guess. Please keep them coming. I would love to see more!

@@plfxtd : There do seem to be some PCG parts being developed beyond procedural asset scattering- for example there's Geometry Scripting which is used in Lyra to create (fairly simple) procedural models for windows, doors and stairs. It's again nowhere near the level of power that Houdini offers for similar work but it's a good start, and Ryan Schmidt's videos on it show some it off quite nicely. There's also the mysterious "Procedural Content Generation Framework Geometry Script Interop" which (I'm presuming) provides access to the Geometry Scripting system from PCG graphs but I've not seen anyone talking about this yet so aren't sure what it's capable of. Fully agree with the hopes Epic stick with this one, it's annoying when we see absolutely amazing features being added in experimental (or even beta) and then taken away again. I do have hopes that they won't though as this does feel to be their biggest new feature added since 5.0 bought us Nanite and Lumen.

Tnx Buddy! I think you can try, just lower the resolution settings and shadows set to medium. That card is a legend, would be nice to know if it's still holding up.

Do you get any error messages?

@@plfxtd Yes: // Error: line 150: Cannot perform boolean operation Also, in other scene in which I did manage to cut up an object via the script (a Greek column), I wanted to create a dynamic sim of it being wrecked by a flying sphere. Maya crashed each time. Yay!

@@keithyakouboff8755 try to disable the legacy mode and also make sure your geo is watertight and clean. Boolean operation in maya doesn't like messy geo

@@plfxtd I will attempt that. Thank you.

@@plfxtd You know, you may have been on to something. I just exported the cat model (.obj), and it came back into Maya broken up. It was intact just to look at, but when I selected it, it was no longer one solid model. I went to merge vertices, and then got some holes in some parts, and the thing was still not one, solid model. I will find a better model and resume my tutorializing. Thank you.

it should work in Maya 2022