Procedurally Scatter Stack of Books within Area Bounds | SideFX Houdini Tutorial Breakdown

Описание: This a small tool to procedurally scatter a stack of books within the area bounds. This tool was created for an upcoming personal project for Unreal Engine 5 🙂

The tool allows to randomly apply color to each book with a seed control. Additionally, it has the option to get min/max values for XYZ scale of book stack as well as random rotation/placement per stack of books. The tool will also create a collision geometry with Houdini rendered collision geo Group.

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If you're new to Houdini, watch the videos below as I'm not focusing to explain most of the fundamental parts of Houdini too much and these guys do it better anyways 🙂
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Beginner Houdini tutorials (playlists):
   • Houdini Isn't Scary: Beginner Series  
   • Houdini is HIP - Part 1: What is VFX?  
   • Houdini Core Essentials - User Interface P...  

How to create HDA parameters:
   • Houdini Digital Assets | 3. Create Parameters  
   • Dynamic Houdini Digital Asset Parameters  
   • Multiparm in Houdini, HDA and for-each bas...  

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Patreon with HIP/HDA files (teaser):   / 86620362  
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Thank you for taking a look and for your interest🙂

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Tool overview and example
3:15 - Tool overview: inside Unreal Engine (Nanite mesh)
4:03 - Tool overview: node graph
4:34 - Breakdown: area bounds where to scatter books
6:41 - Breakdown: scattering books within area bounds
15:41 - Breakdown: stacking books and randomizing scale/rotation
20:44 - Breakdown: creating debug (preview) area bounds
22:14 - Breakdown: coloring & randomization
27:00 - Breakdown: clean geo/create nanite attribute/collision geo
28:39 - Outro

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