000 Houdini Game Dev Toolset

[moustafanegm]

You're a life saviour, i dont think words are enough to describe how much I'm thankful to you !

[thepickicool]

I do not have words to say how much your work is appreciated. Thank you !

[michaelwsheeler]

Sure wish you would do an introductory course to Houdini...I could sure use it. Your instructions are clear and concise. thank you.

[ComfortablySedated]

Ya know...I've been watching your ZBrush tuts for many years. I have always been impressed by your technical skill and concurrent artistry. You are the only person I actually have to slow the video down for (usually I speed up to 1.4x). I always thought someone like you would shy away from a program like Houdini Banshee because of being predisposed based on cultural norms to think it "be to hard."

I was wrong. Dude, I am impressed. I'm am curious how you got up to speed with the software. This software is NOT for the faint of heart or people who play with check boxes and figure it out. Good luck with that, the universe will end first. What courses, or what companies did you use to get up to speed? If it was person to person taught, or within company (I prefer to learn languages by dating women fluent in that language...makes me remember better), then nvm. Google no longer relies on colleges or universities, they just teach what they need their employees to know on site.

Thank you for any direction. Houdini still gives me occasional nightmares, so I go into C4D and use RealFlow or Turbulence to lick my wounds... but I want to be a real boy someday...

[sungerbob]

michael, that vehicle game at the beginning looks fantastic! please consider doing a tutorial on that. i mean game development with UE.. i would definitely buy that...

[SoyalicSinan]

Holy Mother of Procedural. Thank you Mike.

[JSMRGAN]

Super cool thanks for this! I needed an excuse to jump into Houdini and this shall be it :)

[akillera]

amazing, i will start learning Houdini

[hnx]

It seems that, like Redout: Enhanced Edition on steam, this game is very similar and very fun.

[sturmd]

Fantastic! I am curious about those UV tools.

[estuary]

OMG Mikey Mikey Mikey u da bomb!!! Procedural is the way to go! does it mean the process is non destructive? is the game dev tools built into Houdini or an extra plugin / script? hope you have a playlist for this easier for me to download and follow along :-)

[JanisVeide]

A day after listening to some presentations on using Houdini in games, and thinking I need to check it out - you publish all this!
Thank you! :D
Will you be continuing this series into more advanced stuff? (obviously paid, like you did for Zbrush)

[RunTheTape]

How do you compare this workflow with InstaLOD's ? Already asked you this on artstation.

[topherstoybox]

Anyone else only seeing the star geometry when importing the Houdiniscope.fbx into a geo node?

[worldofgaming]

how can anyone learn this i dont see any tutorials on this software just stuff people made to show off

[mephistonight]

As always Michael, fantastic. I've been finding it hard to learn Houdini for a while now but this is a great intro. FYI - the explode view node in gamedev shelf doesn't exist. The standard explode view has way less options. I've found this lack of control results in baking errors for me. I notice lower down you replied to someone asking about the voxel bounding box relative option being in an unreleased version that you were using. I'm assuming this also applies to the gamedev explode view i.e shouldn't belong before it's updated?

[warrenl]

Why don't I have this tool? Where can I download it

[jeffspinner]

You have violated ZBrush's terms of service: No parametric modeling or otherwise, allowed. Pls return you're visitor pass. Tyvm.

Have you done something similar to the SideFXLabs version that replaced this as of 1/2020? Idk how it may have changed or been extended...I'm returning to houdini because I was too happy living life without it.

[TheBritMonk]

Will this work for a character that deforms ?

[reh.]

The latest 1.9 version of the GameDevVoxelMesh doesn't have Bounding Box Relative &
The GameDevAutoUV doesn't have the Flattening Method. Were they removed or are they only there if you have the Indie version?