MCVersus Vista (Houdini-Clarisse-Terragen) - Procedural modeling

Break down from some Modern Combat Versus pre-rendered vista's.
Modeling : Houdini
Scene Layout and Rendering : Clarisse
Many thanks to Kim Goossens and Alexandre Stroukoff for all the help provided !

[@tronotrond]

Amazing work! Keep it up! I've been using Houdini for a few months myself, and the breakdowns you show are really helpful!

[@pascalcreativedesign8790]

don't know if you still read these but this was ridiculously amazing. outstanding what you have accomplished in Houdini. You truly inspire me. I need lessons from you

[@Munchhausenify]

Thanks sir !

[@valentinanfossi4828]

I'm impressed, amazing breakdown and the results are next level. Thanks a lot !

[@C4IK]

Love the way you present and teach - very clear and informative

[@SansP3ur]

I love the organization of your nodes almost as much as what you're creating with them... Almost! Travail incroyable et beau!

[@ChristianAkesson]

Amazing work! Very well presented! Pure Houdini gold. More please!

[@kristiankebbe6640]

Dude, thank you so much for the detailed breakdowns! Your rock breakdown was especially helpful, keep up the fantastic work!

[@AlenHR]

wow, this is amazing.. learned so much from all those tips.. thank you very much for this.. i got into houdini universe couple of months ago, needed lots of vfx for a game we are working on.. and man.. it is terrifying and beautiful at the same time.. terrifying when you have recreate something from reference and get a production quality results fast.. beautiful when you immerse yourself into houdini and just play for hours without any real goal.. planning to do some vids like this with the stuff i figured out and haven't seen anywhere else.. thanks again

[@PolycultureArt]

Awesome thanks a bunch, you helped me understand what Houdini actually does at a practical level! Also I will check out the grove, it looks amazing! Cheers, it lovely to see all you "working" and process broken down so simply and visually. Great stuff!

[@MDA_01]

5 years on and this is still a very interesting and useful video. Thanks for posting!

[@KirillKovalevskiy]

Amazing work for a single person! Thanks for this breakdown.

[@AdrienTriangles]

Amazing breakdown, great pieces of work!!!

[@GuilhermeHenrique1]

Brilliant work, and also great presentation. Cheers!

[@patrickmartinez4571]

Amazing. Thanks for sharing. Wading into houdini and realizing I've been missing out.

[@antennatrees]

Very inspiring. Thanks for the thorough breakdown.

[@aslanygh]

man, your are brilliant artist, such gorgeus work, thank you for sharing!

[@hashemieada4846]

This is astonishing work

[@roobeerrrtt1633]

Not only was this technically incredible, but the way you presented this information was the best Ive ever seen. If every teacher were as vigilant as you every one would love learning

[@RedHedDes]

I would pay for a class, Or even just a livestream of you working. Very impressive.

[@GregoryYepes]

Brilliant! Thanks for putting this together and for sharing!

[@123DarkG123]

THANKS SO MUCH. Doing this takes a lot of time and you are sharing this with everybody. So yes, you should to tutorials because this is awesome.

[@nnrcs95]

Wow. Just incredible

[@joellelievre7968]

Fascinating stuff! Thank you for sharing!

[@tracingzimpossible]

i'm floored seeing it . i wish i could learn something from you in person

[@richardfraser4843]

Excellent work, and very well presented.

[@buzzdev]

Simply amazing.. Awesome

[@ShaufelDog]

Wow. Super inspiring work.

[@swinny_]

Awesome video, thanks for the tips on making those rocky structures. Very cool :)

[@MartinH81]

Great stuff Pascal! Being a Terragen-lover I am totally blown away by your mesa rock structures, so awesome! Warm greetings Tangled-Universe

[@Munchhausenify]

That means a lot to me my Terragen friend !

[@ispunked]

Beautiful Job, crazy man crazy!

[@simonize]

Fantastic work! Love seeing how a talented generalist uses Houdini. Bien joué !

[@Munchhausenify]

Merci !

[@cyrusjameskhan]

Amazing stuff man! Was inspiring to watch

[@yankostoyanov6702]

Wooooow, that's some advanced ninja skills there! Kudos to you, sir! I'll disect this video,

[@wouttengrootenhuysen5137]

Wow, amazing work ! Well done Sir ! Bravo :)

[@TheAngadRana]

This is really amazing! Can you please share what's inside your VOP sop in the poles and wire scene? I want to procedurally place electric towers with wires onto my terrain!

[@unknown-hj4gh]

Hi Pascal, Is there any update about the tutorial? I can't wait to learn this kind of workflow in houdini! Do you have any release date soon? Thank you, Francis.

[@stefan.o]

That thing with the favela part looks sick. Could you do a further breakdown how you achieved this please?

[@idgeek]

This is GREAT! Thanks for sharing.

[@amfclslrc]

Amazing work!

[@makermovingpictures872]

WOW! Very impressive stuff.

[@ferencszabo3504]

I take off my heat to you, this is awesome, i did some work in Lw, Modo, c4d, but Houdini was always a riddle to me, Great job!!

[@MuthuKumaranA]

Amazing work. ..

[@DangerRangerous]

Lots of useful tricks in here, thanks!

[@philippeheritier9364]

Superbe travail merci de le partager 👍

[@raw_pc]

Those power lines look sick

[@andrew_golubev]

Great video! Very well done!

[@3DisFuntastic]

Amazing work Pascal! :)

[@Munchhausenify]

Thanks Sensei !

[@SoyalicSinan]

The accent 10/10, Houdini skills 10/10, creativity 10/10 Information 5/10 :) Please more ;)

[@tecoshaw2502]

So good, sir. I am now subscribed

[@michael22262]

I want to learn how to make terrains like you do - but am having the HARDEST time finding tutorials on how to do it in Houdini. I was never a math person in school. I was an "awtist" that painted subjects very realistically. Please do a tutorial on what you've created here. This is great stuff!

[@soniarajput4658]

Ur work is awesome 👌

[@PropheticGamesProductions]

Amazing ! Thanks for this video, i'm learn a lot ! Thanks

[@Drawcall]

Great work man! Thanks for sharing this information :)

[@Hartproduktie]

outstanding thanks

[@zeeyannosse]

this is really AMAZING! magnifique !! bravo !!! oui un quelques tutos gumroad seraient les bienvenus !! La facon dont vous expliquez et montrez les examples "d exercices" procedurales qui servent ensuite dans de plus grandes scenes est TOP!! . vous avez vraiment un excellent talent pedagogique ;) !!! en plus de la qualite artistique et technologique ! la classe totale quoi !!

[@mdsanima]

WOW! Very nice! Now I following you and like this. Keep going.

[@ahahlex]

merci pour les breakdown

[@6rilllir6]

nice ! thanks for summed up explanations, very informative. Chapeau ! Du beau boulot.

[@Munchhausenify]

Merci !

[@focusmaya251]

You are the artist.Wishes from India...

[@issacdhan]

Just shared it on a fb Group. Amazing work.

[@fluidframes_]

Amazing!

[@danielkrajnik3817]

so awesome

[@redblackhood]

so good, thanks for sharing

[@JonasJCom]

Awesome love it

[@firnekburg4990]

I'd pay 200$ for full course ; D You're amazing !

[@kimmolaine665]

Well done Sir! Very nice. How did you handle ngons and generate UV's when converting terrain/buildings into polygons?

[@arslavruhin]

amazing!

[@danielbygods2878]

You are amazing man.

[@taiwoolaleye6333]

your work will shine with the coming ue5

[@ideascortes]

This was amazing

[@DiogoSantosvfx]

amazing work man :) Keep it up!

[@TheArtofCodeIsCool]

Awesome stuff man!

[@spaceshipsbuilder7578]

this is amazing, thanks for sharing!! I am trying to get the similar effect to this at 11.52, could you explain how you did this? I am trying to follow your script but cant get this result... Thanks!!

[@johnbinary5989]

0:50 It will be fantastic if you give a glimpse of the main steps of the making of the complex buildings and its placement (maybe it's some specail scattering techniques?).

[@BasicCGI]

awesome!!!

[@oBCHANo]

One small criticism of the electricity wires is that you could measure the length of the lines and then use that to drive the strength of the drooping, so shorter lines don't droop as much as irl you wouldn't want to have such loose wires.

[@cg.destroyer]

Very impresive! :)

[@ArifPribadistuffs]

Hey Pascal, its me Arif , I hope you remember me , worked with you before at Gameloft, hehehe, ( you did some skybox and foliage stuff back then ) your houdini and procedural stuff is awesome man, I really regret didn't learn or ask around much about procedural stuff back then when I had chance. big fan of your work :).

[@Munchhausenify]

Hi Arif, sure I remember you, thanks for the kind words ! Back in the days I wasn't using Houdini, so there is not real regret to have ;)

[@richarda.2535]

I am so amazed to see that one guy have been able to dislike this breakdown video... Of course everybody have is own opinion, but I believe that to downvote this amazing work, this person must know nothing about CG and the work it represent, or being just jealouse. So next time, for better understanding, and my proper mind opening, please let us know why. Impressionnant! Je crois que je viens de trouver la motivation qu'il me fallait pour me mettre a Houdini!

[@OGMahony]

Awesome !!!

[@somebuddyX]

This is wild!

[@xpez9694]

inspiring, I want to learn how to do this!!!

[@BurtonPosey]

This is incredible stuff, thank you so much for sharing! I had a question about your rock cliffs - How do you apply Mountain to the non-vertical (non-normal) axis like you show at 11:53 ? I'm pretty new at Houdini, but will keep trying to solve through it. Thanks for any help you can offer.

[@Munchhausenify]

Hello, you can use the polyframe sop, entity:primitive style: Primitive Centroid, toggle off everything, except Tangent Name, and you replace 'tangentu' by 'N' ... so you will have proper normal to push the points of the circle with the mountain sop.

[@BurtonPosey]

PaQ WaK thanks! I figured it was something simple. In the meantime, I also learned that I could use a point node and calculate the vector between each point and the origin @P - {0,0,0} to get the same result (i think :) )

[@Munchhausenify]

Indeed, and if the circle is created at the origin, you can just write something like : v@N=v@P; ... it's even better to normalize the vector, v@N=normalize(v@P); ... otherwise the larger the circle radius is, the stronger mountain sop will push the points.

[@wilismatrix9847]

oh my fuq! how the heck I will be able to learn all that ! I need another life time 😭😭😭

[@Citcope5]

Ive one question what did your write down in your wrangle, because i dont know how you recall this SN Attribute a few times

[@lukasvojir_x]

Amazing! :)

[@quentintheret5106]

That's just madness :o

[@xbaroka]

wow..pls more Clarisse tutorial ! THX!

[@DavidKahlVFX]

Very Nice!

[@MatthewMoult]

This is a great breakdown. Thank you! I was wondering if you could clarify what the noise is that you are using at 11:20 int eh video?

[@Munchhausenify]

Thank you ! It's Manhattan Worley F1, available in the mountain sop, or in the unifiednoise from a vop network. drive.google.com/open?id=18WhJLTcDSOGvgQWwjTp2u-L1vlvVVFiY

[@MatthewMoult]

PaQ WaK thanks very much! I'll give that a go. The mountain/ rock formations look outstanding! Keep up the content! M

[@raymondstpaul4913]

Looks interesting is Houdini a subscription service for its use of license or can one purchase it for own use without a license if using it for sales of ones making? Oh an a tutorial please? How much does it cost? Is the one you using for purchase on Steam or is that a different software?

[@rickedeckard2006]

Respect.

[@jayakumarvfx7670]

I would like to know you used houdini vex or python for this amazing work

[@lveronese]

and you say you are not a technical artist?? amazing work..

[@claudiushoby]

Hello. I have a curiosity about programs and tutorials. If you want to make a paid tutorial in Houdini or another program, you need the program to be with license ?

[@Kokono08101987]

Awesome

[@EnzoLuka21]

Pascal, great job. may I ask where did you learn Houdini?

[@Starius2]

is there a place i can download the project files to check them out? especially the electric lines one.

[@MickaelBonfill]

Vraiment intéressant, merci ! Je n'ai compris que depuis peu la puissance de Houdini pour la generation de terrain et de batiments, du coup je commence à m'y mettre... Je prévois d'intégrer Houdini Engine dans mon moteur 3D qui utilise Vulkan, et générer la planete Terre en mixant procedural et des references réelles, un peu comme dans Outerra (voire plus loin !).

[@feshprod1121]

Salut je souhaite aussi me mettre a Houdini blender c'est franchement faible pour Unity.. aurais tu quelques conseille? je suis indé, j'ai regardé ce qu'il propose, mais toi aurais tu quelques infos, conseille ?

[@dubscope2246]

how do you get the scene into a game engine? I saw in another video as well, gears of war