Layout LOP & Layout Asset Gallery | Fianna Wong | Houdini 19 HIVE

This presentation will cover how you can do environment concepting using the new Layout LOP and the Layout Asset Gallery in Houdini 19. Primarily, this is geared towards those who want to use Karma and paint assets in their scene, but don't necessarily care about the maximum blinding power of USD.
Fianna Wong is a maker of hats at SideFX and sometimes wears them. She enjoys working with internal development and external artists from around the world, and loves seeing the evolution of the CG landscape.
Project Files:
www.sidefx.com/houdini-hive/h....

[@ChaosOver]

Demoscene

[@LoveVFX]

I Love it!

[@job_hobby9752]

What about textures for materials? As I understand it, they are not transferred to the folder with usd aset? It turns out that the process is as follows: first you have to create a folder where the asset will be saved, then move all the textures there, and only then generate in LOPs usd asset?

[@mateuniverse]

@2:10 WOOHOO 1337 !!!

[@firnekburg4990]

How can I save an asset with textures? It's just referencing, not copying over. How can i edit paths in the future? Let's say I moved the original folders. And one more, How can I view assets as bounding boxes in the viewport? That option is not visible with the layout node.

[@Rubicon1985]

Thank you this was great. You mentioned you can swap assets out - say I have a new version of a rock - how would I update the asset in the layout node without laying them out again?

[@Rubicon1985]

I got an answer from SideFX and you can use an edit protype node to swap out your asset. Seems to work a treat. They plan to implement it better in future

[@everydayfitness3004]

17 mins starts about Layout.