Magic Market | L-Systems

To generate foliage, it helps to understand L-Systems. L-Systems use simple sets of instructions to
generate branching and growing systems. This can be used in conjunction with geometry to
generate plants and trees. In this tutorial, you learn the basics of L-Systems and how they were used
in the 'Magic Market' to produce the foliage assets.

[@masummitra7683]

First time I understand something in houdini. U r a perfect teacher , the way u teaching is awesome so thank you..

[@HOT3D2520]

Thank you for great tutorial.

[@massimobaita7178]

Thank You very much!

[@sagarthapa3765]

So beautiful

[@kingbach8796]

Wow the quality of standard is very high now

[@icepirate07]

holy mother of L-System !!

[@marwans4018]

how to texture the plant procedurally inside houdini fx ?

[@kitmateyawa7829]

How do you get your leaves to align properly, mine's not.

[@edh615]

There should be an inteface to create L-systems without having to change the rules manually.

[@Alexs_Music_Comps]

agree

[@rattlesnake3d]

like presets? it definitely should,...but is not really that difficult, and once you have one you like you can just save it and use it every time just adding some modifications.

[@edh615]

@@rattlesnake3d of course, but i'd be nice to be able to work with them in a more visual/interactive way.

[@BloomGlare]

@@rattlesnake3d There are presets in the lsystem node.

[@DUBZslayZOMBIES]

@@rattlesnake3d bro not that difficult? its an an entirely new language. you are tripping.

[@JoaquinPeMM]

why ",",lsys" in the switch?

[@cosmotect]

Imagine my face seeingthis after I hand crafted plants for my environment

[@RedBattalion9000]

Hmm...This function of houdini doesn't look like useful for me. "Speed Tree" is 100 times better tool than this. Doing this in actual work may be time wasting I hope houdini tutorial which is more artistic style plant generation.

[@DommageCollateral]

there are so many speach-breaks in this video, that you easily could have done in 10 minutes. pls stop making those videos in runtime

[@Skyefaux]

thank you!!!!! most L-system tuts are garbage this is great!

[@lemmonsinmyeyes]

Thanks dude! Explained well and without overcomplicating it. Much appriciated !

[@emmanuelchacon8900]

Damn, Houdini. This tutorial does it for me. I'm all in.

[@eftorq]

This is the first L-System Tutorial that actually help my attention and made me understand it. Maybe I'm stupid, anyways this tutorial is really good

[@allieholmes2192]

how can you scatter the l-system and use the random seed :(

[@smithkai2483]

so cool!!!!!! Thanks so much!!!!

[@rattlesnake3d]

Hello, very well explained tutorial, do you know some vex wrangle magic to avoid intersections between leaves and branches? keep on the good work man!

[@DUBZslayZOMBIES]

if there are intersections basically this is unusable

[@remon563]

how can we generate LOD's for these types of plants ? it would be useful if we could somehow automatically bake them down to a plane.

[@jimenagrueso2740]

Best L-system tutorial!

[@christianvolkner2028]

Great Tutorial, I never knew L-Systems were this powerful and cool! If I had known I would have used them a lot earlier

[@sskidmore13]

Really nice breakdown of L-Systems. Great work!

[@DUBZslayZOMBIES]

yep its a breakdown bc doesnt share how to make the assets that actually make this what it is. what a shame.

[@Zocress]

Amazing explanation of the L-system!

[@maxie6990]

For some reasons my angle is not equal to each others even though i set it to 120 like him in the video. Anyone know why?

[@mhafeez]

Seriously? You made it look so simple :) Music in the end was a nice touch. Thanks a lot!!!!!

[@ruslanmansurov3790]

Nice one! Thanks! There is a wip for spruce tree in my videos.

[@TheFxguy97]

This is Awesome !

[@jemsophia]

Incredible video, thank you! The one thing I'm stumped on is towards the end, where does the `L` come from in `CCJ(L,0,1)`? Is `L` bound to `lsys` or something?

[@felipefrango]

If I understood correctly it's the variable for the L leaf input!

[@AnimGraphLab]

Grateful for this 🙂Thank you!

[@Sk8oorDie]

The tutorial is awesome, thank you very much. I watched every l-system video i could find, but it seems like its not enough for me to crate a growing flower-plant. The problem (i think lots of people run into) is that on the middle of the stem, there is always a flower and leaves on the most top point of the plant but i just want it on the tips of the outgrowing stems. The code im using is: A = -(15) ! F[^BBBBK]/(120)[^CCCCJ]/(120)[^CCCJ]F[^BBBBK]/(120)[^CCCCJ]/(120)[^CCCJ]F[^BBBBK]/(120)[^CCCCJ]/(120)[^CCCJ]A so with " BBBBK " i set the flower(K) to be after the growing stem(B) but it is always adding (K) to the main-stem too. The Plant is looking nice so far, but it makes me crazy that there are all this bonus-flowers added in the middle of the plant. Any idea how to avoid that? :/ :)

[@aaaaaaaaaa_aaa_aaaaaaaaaaa]

> this bonus-flowers added in the middle of the plant. Any idea how to avoid that? I set rule specific for flower and add to end of flower branch. G=[J] // flower E = [CCCCG]/(120) // fl branch

[@kaemmili4590]

sidenote : the animations are sick, and express the clarity we also see in the tut

[@masummitra7683]

Oneday I will be pro for you I mean houdini

[@brandyn604]

F in chat for the 1 dislike

[@Momongaa20]

Thank you so much ffor this !!

[@masummitra7683]

But respect and love to this teacher

[@albertneuteng9862]

i luv u

[@Tritoon710]

Can L-Systems do palm trees?

[@asiseverything3404]

of course yes. simply put :- 1) a rule for a trunk. followed by 2) a rule for the leaves.

[@DUBZslayZOMBIES]

why do you go back and change things just do it right the first time

[@DUBZslayZOMBIES]

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