Prototyping Stylized Landscapes in Houdini | Moving Pieces Interactive | Houdini HIVE GameDev

Behind the scenes on designing stylized landscapes for our game Shoulders of Giants. We'll learn some tips and tricks and a few different approaches to creating unique looking landscapes for games.
Patrick McAvena is one of the Co-Founders of Moving Pieces Interactive, a game studio based in NYC. Their latest project in development, Shoulders of Giants is a roguelike set in a dark sci-fi stylized universe. Before starting Moving Pieces, Patrick spent a decade working as a 3D Artist on Commercials and Advertising.
00:00:00 Intro/Demo
00:03:38 What we will cover
00:04:19 Project Challenges
00:05:42 Polygon based approach to landscapes
00:10;41 Heightfield and polygons on hero areas
00:18:41 Creating Sci Fi Ring Structure
00:21:49 Stylized Cliffs
00:24:17 Stylized Rocks
00:26:20 Wrap up

[@funboys1000]

Why game development videos by Houdini mostly revolves around Unreal engine, not sure if they are aware of the humongous Unity game developer community.

[@Bradzy108]

process for getting houdini assets in engine is basically the same for both, plus most assets discussed in this video seemed to just be exported as .fbx anyways

[@dnch]

the crash bandicoot on the run video from the same day is Unity