HOUDINI FOUNDATION – 28 – Modeling Balconies using Vex – ( Free Tutorial for Game Dev with Unreal )

In this tutorial about Houdini for Game Dev with Unreal. We finish the balconies by building upon the simple balcony shapes. And we cover a lot of VEX to ensure the balconies are properly wrapped around corners. 🔽🔽🔽 GET PROJECT FILES 🔽🔽🔽

In this second Lecture Series of the Foundation Module, learn how to make a Procedural Building tool using Houdini for the Unreal Engine. These tutorials are beginner friendly and cover knowledge and concepts vital to getting started with Houdini for video game development with the Unreal Engine.

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In case you are a complete beginner to Houdini, I recommend you watch the first Lecture series in the Foundation Module called HOUDINI 101, where we will cover the basics of Houdini for complete beginners to the program.

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Videos of the FOUNDATION PROJECT Lecture series are slated to release in batches in the days following the launch of the video series. These lectures are part of the larger Houdini “Procedural Asset Production” Masterclass currently in development and to be released in stages over the course of 2021/2022.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Procedural Modeling – Part 6
00:03:41 Updating the Proto-Balcony Shapes
00:11:56 Measuring Wall Proximity with VEX & xyzdist()
00:27:05 Filtering Points by Adjacency using VEX
00:34:21 Snapping Balconies Around Corners
00:42:23 Reverting Badly Snapped Points
00:49:01 Cleaning the Balcony Surfaces
00:59:57 Extruding the Balcony Floors
01:03:02 Extracting the Balcony Railings
01:15:33 Integrating the Balcony Models
01:21:37 Testing the Balconies in Unreal
01:23:54 Next Chapter

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