80Lvl: Procedural Technology in Ghost Recon: Wildlands

[acey195]

Yesterday 80Lvl released a new post:

https://80.lv/articles/procedural-technology-in-ghost-recon-wildlands/

It covers some of the design processes that were used and how Houdini assisted in them.
The project itself has been a blast to work on! </plug> So I hope you like the article

 

[hyperforce]

And here is the second article:

https://80.lv/articles/procedural-world-building-in-ghost-recon-wildlands/

I go over the workings of some of our most intricate tools
Hope you enjoy the read.

[Atom]

Thanks for the post, a nice read.

[acey195]

The third article in this series  :

https://80.lv/articles/vegetation-generation-in-ghost-recon-wildlands/

 

for some context on the Houdini relevance to this topic:

• The vegetation placement is greatly assisted by it,
  in combination with hand editing vegetation zones.
• Grass types have been adjusted using it.
• The LOD scaling values have been evaluated by it.

 

As a bonus, for those who haven't yet seen it on the Sidefx website,

a small cameo of the Houdini team in the video.

 

 

Edited April 28, 2017 by acey195

[acey195]

Some may already have seen it on SideEffects.com, (although they missed the 3rd part there)

but the 4th part in the series is now out as well (since 2 weeks)
So to be complete, here is the last part of the series for now  :

https://80.lv/articles/landscape-and-material-pipeline-of-ghost-recon-wildlands/

Hope you liked it!

Edited May 15, 2017 by acey195
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