Timeless Towers "Demo"
Hello, I would like to share a first look at my third-year project that I worked on independently as part of a specialization module as a technical artist. To create this landscape, I used Unreal Engine and Houdini. An update to this project will appear very soon, where I will talk in more detail about the technical side, and the appearance of the landscape will also be significantly improved.
Rocky Boundaries Landscape Subtool.
My landscape was built in a procedural and modular way using three main layers: Rocky Boundaries, Procedural Islands, and Cliffs combined in the final stage. This approach allowed me to be extremely flexible with artdir
Layer 01 - Rocky Boundaries (Demo1)
Layer 01 - Rocky Boundaries (Demo2)
Procedural Islands Landscape Subtool.
This subtool was created to enable the quick, efficient, and art-directable creation of small areas on which I could potentially populate with small villages in the future, attracting players to them.
Layer 02 - Procedural Islands (Demo1)
Layer 02 - Procedural Islands (Demo2)
Layer 03 - Main HF Layer Preview (Rocky Desert)
The way I combined layers.
Final Landscape (4*4 km)
HDA Instances Import Hou-UE
Identifying areas where I want to place mesh instances
Adding mesh instances to the landscape and adjusting the landscape to suit them, in order to blend them better.
HDA Cache Manual Edits UE-Hou. It allowed me to make any manual changes in Unreal, cache them, and bring them back to Houdini for a procedural pass.
HDA Load Landscape Hou-UE - I also created a small HDA to import the landscape into Unreal Engine, set landscape layers, and manage the whole system in a procedural and convenient way.