SideFX Houdini - Procedural NeoGothic Architecture / scene breakdown / 01 - Towers

[@AdrienLambertvfx]

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[@REOsama]

I love how you don't waste our time, you give us the good directly, thanks a lot!

[@Elvis.D99]

yeah

[@chrismeyers3d]

Thanks for all the great ideas Adrien! The quick breakdown style of this video is perfect...packed with info.

[@vijayctamil5832]

Man that's just awesome explanation...... The concepts and techniques looks complex but u make it easy to understand.! Looking forward for other parts in this series.!

[@MissEldira]

I must be a bit work damaged because I was giggling at the clever but complex way you found the middle. I would have just rotated it with the rotation being calculated from the number of sides or for a more exact/none uniform way I would have resampled like you but used a group range node to get 1 of 2 since 0 would stay in a corner. I really need to take an other look at ramps. They are so useful and I think they should be more accessible and easy to set up so I want to make a tool. Your way of doing it looks impressive and I want to try it. Last I tried making a ramp to control peak or position of a point I did something wrong and failed. Awesome scene breakdown and I learned things, have a cookie!

[@AdrienLambertvfx]

Hehe you are right several options are possible for "middle point", turning the model is one of them assuming you are working on a perfect circle like in this case, which isn't always the case. Groupbyrange is always a good one though ! Ramps are very very versatile tools, defintely worth pushing your efforts :)

[@amirhm6459]

Wow learn a lot from this breakdown, thank you

[@FairRight]

Beautiful Hungarian Parliament

[@ahmadq9195]

it's really hard to find a quality tutorial like this

[@arturoorgaz]

Awesome tutorial, thank you!

[@assumzaek]

Appreciate the cones of dunshire reference 😄

[@spctr3041]

Wow. This is a stunning result, and the explanations are crystal clear !! Love it Adrien, can't wait for the next episode of this scene breakdown !

[@foxman4455]

You're a world level Houdini artist

[@giodos]

That's brilliant and inspiring! Thanks Adrien

[@hedfe]

This looks super fun to do! Merci beaucoup for sharing the breakdown of your project

[@RanMazar]

Thanks for the amazing stuff!! just bought the tools to learn but unfortunately i cant open em in houdini fx :/ cant seem to get around even the first window boolean tool. just doesnt work on my end

[@ChrisKania]

Wow, I’ve been waiting for this one 🥳🤩

[@stephencurah1059]

amazing, simply amazing

[@mene2172]

Wow. Please do more. Love environment art in Houdini

[@maximgehricke3768]

This is mindblowing! Great work, thanks for the breakdown! :)

[@mitch7571]

c'est extraordinnaire!!! Bravo!!

[@imperatormegatron2014]

Awwwwwwwwwwwww. Yes! Been waiting for this.

[@AndrewByrnes1]

Woa....... absolutely stunning my friend. keep up the good work

[@aggelikipetai3139]

Admirable work! Bravo

[@Elvis.D99]

nice

[@shark512]

Great stuff, thanks for the detailed breakdown. Love the result 👍

[@vitalyantonovas321]

well done!

[@kitma5747]

Mindblowing. Would you consider doing the shading tutorial?

[@sa7o]

yes yes yes! thanks for this!

[@liuzzivfx9413]

Do you know what the settings are in those Attribute trans. / Orient Along curve nodes?...I noticed you didn't click directly on those only on the display flag

[@AdrienLambertvfx]

Orientation along curve should setup Normal and Up vector, by default I didn't need to change anything in there but you can adjust plenty of things if you need to add a twist, change the role/pitch/yaw or customize up vector... Before a sweep it's important to add that to your curve to make sure orientation of the profile will flow on the tangent of the curve. In the past would use polyframe for that

[@liuzzivfx9413]

​@@AdrienLambertvfx Thanks! When downloading the stuff from gumroad I gave you a few extra $ for taking the time to answer my question..much appreciated :)

[@MarquisDeSang]

This is gonna be hell to UV map and texture.

[@JustAboutOk]

Hi do you have a tutorial for this awesome castle? I recently purchased your Mystic Tower tutorial because I love those kinds of cool stuff; however when I checked your website I couldn't find this Procedural NeoGothic Architecture tutorial anywhere :( do you think maybe you could make a release? willing to pay for some new knowledge/skills. Thanks for the breakdown as well you are clearly very talented bravo.

[@bbrother92]

How to texture this?

[@waltetlebza5605]

Coool!😊

[@supaflykai]

awesome work as usual but... I still think this task would be much easier/straight forward using more traditional modelling techniques. The only real benefit that I can see (other than things being non-destructive of course!) is the small HDA's you made. They are cool, but to me it seems only worth the time if you are making many variations... Regardless of my unpopular opinion, the results you've created are incredible (as always) and I am inspired by your hard work and generosity :) Thanks for the share

[@AdrienLambertvfx]

Thanks ! Agreed things are always easier going the traditional road. I actually tried this way at the beginning, quickly realized so many stuff I was doing was so laborious and tedious I end up having more fun in Houdini... passing the phase of developping some tools of course. It's by creating small and bigger HDA that you can defintely leverage houdini's capacity so you don't need to reinvent the wheel all the time. A lot of elements in this project are slightly different over the building, Having a procedural setup definitely helped me matching closer to the real thing. And maybe I'm just addicted to nodes at this point haha

[@jessarc6715]

First of all, congratulations, I appreciate the long hours this kind of procedural achievement can take... I have one question: you mention (or so I understood) that you keep like two separated geometry flows, one for common geometry and another one for packed prims (or maybe just the points+attributes?) to avoid problems further down the line. Could you please elaborate (or maybe mention about it on a another episode :) ) about what kind of issues are you refering to? Thanks and looking forward for more content from you

[@AdrienLambertvfx]

Thanks Jess ! It is possible to do it (merge packed prim with non packed), but from my experience may make houdini unstable and much more prompt to crashes. Just my 2cents on that, maybe got better on latest version. I find it a good habit to have though. If need to merge everything under one, can still add a "pack"sop to merge with rest of packed geo.

[@noskov5]

mate, you need to make Patreon and start producing educational content. I`d like to buy a tutorial for this!

[@JUNHUANGART]

awesome work. thanks for sharing!

[@hardikjha6645]

Nice

[@YIMOX]

genius

[@grimeyneedle1527]

man i really want to learn houdini lol

[@Nausicaa521]

Comment, comment!!

[@brandoncyoung]

noice