The Last Of Us Part I: Houdini
Found some time to integrate a little Houdini into my pipeline for this project! Throughout outskirts there are many destroyed brick buildings and I decided to use Houdini to construct rapid Booleans and auto placement of bricks along destroyed wall sections!
This allowed for rapid iteration of complex destruction areas all in Maya's interface through a Houdini Plugin.
We also integrated Houdini generated erosion masks as the baseline normal and blend for the materials in the mud trenches.
ND games are a monumental team effort, Thanks to everyone that helped out in this level!
And a big thanks to anyone who's uploaded one of the many excellent free Houdini tutorials out there!
Showcasing my tool, the Brick-Wall-Destroyer-3000 features:
Procedural insert brick scale and placement, primary, secondary and tertiary detail Booleans, grout Boolean, erosion depth.
Insert brick detail variation, placement features, scale, rotation.
Various rapid iteration examples.
We also integrated Houdini generated erosion masks as the baseline normal and blend for the materials in the mud trenches.
