Procedural Environment Generation
A procedural system that creates terrain, cliffs, places foilage and materials. The entire tool is created in Houdini and everything is implemented in Unreal Engine 4 using the Houdini engine. Foliage and materials are sourced from: * Unreal engine market place. * Substance Share/ Source. * Quixel Megascans.
Here is a short demo video showing some glimpses of the environment.
Environment walkthough
Here is a preview of how the system works using a mask to place the trees.
The system grows based on forest ecological succession.
Blue = Climax Forest
Orange = Mature Forest
Red = Young forest
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The system is fully procedural. Meaning that you can input any heightfield and the spawn of the trees is nearly instant. The tool can work with any biomes as long as you create settings for them.
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The tool has a hierarchy system, meaning that roads/rivers/buildings etc.. will have priority over the spawn of the foliage (unless stated otherwise.) This works wonders when the assets need to be moved elsewhere and the placement of foliage will move along. This way designers and artist will have more time doing what they should do and not spend hours replacing each asset.
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With that, the assets can also deform the terrain beneath them as shown below.
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Next step, Material placement.
The system places the material based on the terrain(erosion, height difference, slump, steep areas etc) and the placement of the assets.
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