Houdini Engine for Unreal | Instancing & Variation

Learn how to set up instancing in your Houdini Digital Assets to work properly with Houdini Engine for Unreal. Learn the packed/copy method and a new method which involves instance attributes. You will also learn how to instance a variety of objects and how to weight their presence in your system.

[@tamaraorlova]

Great explanation and demonstration!

[@mohanpugaz]

well explained, thanks a lot

[@ChrisOseProduction]

Dear Simon, great tutorial! I really like this approch because its super fast and suitable for let's say a building generator with scanned modular pieces. Is there a way to get the bounding box of the geometry you put into unreal?

[@unrealdevs1172]

thx :)

[@CombatFXZone]

Lets say I create an HDA and ship the tool with some static meshes so other people can use the generator. Is it possible to instance directly and ship my HDA for other users and the tool will be able to find the referenced static meshes on a different machine/unreal project?

[@lista_devideos_cursoscompl1338]

Amazing vid , i love content of procedural world, is the future. also AI !

[@pawpotsRS]

is there anyway you can rename the (mesh Instancer) or HoudiniOutput_0 Instance?

[@quackcharge]

I'd also like to know this, working on landscapes with hierarchical scatter systems is a pain without being able to name the instancers

[@32bart10]

This wont work for Ue5 currently right?

[@m.richards6947]

Is there an easy way to just render a Houdini project in Unreal?

[@dog85686]

Use the render queue in ue4. If you import any animations, track them with a level sequence.

[@mattbarkerart]

depends on the complexity of the houdini project. Generally you have to import and setup everything for realtime, animations, materials etc don't transfer over quickly.,

[@mitch9244]

Does anyone know how I can edit that seed value he was using within a blueprint?

[@rodrigogomes4677]

Im happy that now blender is implementing all this, houdini is very expensive

[@CombatFXZone]

It would be nice if blender could export tools in the same way like houdini does with HDA

[@thyroid99]

The result is I'm left with one static object of trees. Where's the instancing??

SA?

in TO

[@danielkamentsky7243]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIG2q6l-d9FksKc but how do you instance blueprints?