acey195 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 (edited) Hello people , I finished the demoreel for my graduation project: Showcasing a procedurally generated planet with multiple levels of detail and the pipeline used to create it. The generator, created in Houdini, automatically exports various levels of detail to model files. These "chunks" are generated from a template that can be created by an artist in about one hour with a lot of control, unlike many noise based procedural planet generators. After all the data is generated, in about 6 hours on an above average machine, the generated planet can be imported into Unity by the other end of the pipeline. Reducing the work for one artist from more than a month to one day. Features: - Generation of UVmapped terrain, with multiple levels of details. - Random planets, hand edited or manually created planets can be used. - Climate simulation during generation, including wind, rain and oceanic conveyors. - Texture based geometry detailing, for more control than a noise based approach. - True 3D terrain, allowing for tunnels among other things. - Automatic prop placement and dynamic loading in Unity. - Automatic water mesh generation. - Automatic collision generation. - Specific atmosphere generation, clouds linked to the climate. - Automatic texture generation for texture masks, normal maps and bump maps. - Shaders for dynamic blending of levels of detail. Complete Documentation: http://www.twandegra... Graaf 2012.pdf Portfolio: http://www.twandegraaf.nl/ Music: http://freemusicarch...ong_For_January Best regards, Twan The state of the project 6 months ago: Over the last four months I have worked on a procedural generator for planets. I have now reached the first mayor milestone. I use Houdini for the design and to export all the model files and texture masks. This way they can be integrated in any game engine, rather than having to build a specific game engine for the procedural generation. I have integrated into Unity, into a game prototype I have been working on last year. For my "next" project I am going to spend another 20 weeks on the generator, adding things like: -object placement -water -smooth level of detail blending. Edited June 14, 2013 by acey195 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 VERY COOL! I'll have a look at your pdf this weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acey195 Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 My graduation project is now completed. I updated the first post with new video, description and documentation. I hope you like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kleer001 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Oh man, that's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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