Procedural Desert | UE4 | PT1 Create Landscape

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Learn how to use the height field based terrain tools in Houdini to create a desert landscape. You will learn how to add many layers and use masks to tweak the results to get the desired look. You will learn how to prepare this to be used in UE4 as a digital asset.

[@PeterLeban]

Simon being a badass again. Thanks for putting this together! Invaluable stuff!

[@evening8990]

This is the way..excellent tutorial Simon, many thanks

[@junglingmitapfel2902]

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

[@SnakeSkin422]

Simon forever houdini god！

[@rozgoo]

Cool

[@keltart809]

question: what is the advantage of using heightfield resample versus increasing grid size of heightField ?

[@OggyT]

Using resample lets you change the resolution down the line. Usually, what I would recommend is start with a lower resolution when working with big shapes and forming your silhouette in the terrain, because then you don't really care for small details, but when you get to the point where you have to get fine detail, then up-res the terrain via resample.
The main benefit is computation speed if you go from low res to high res after, but also, if you do caching and such, the higher res files will be bigger, which can be annoying in production if you have to share absolutely massive files. Hope this helps :).

[@Gam3inGpR0Zz]

I’ve been trying to research and look into this but is it at all possible to scale a developed environment Down, for example my Environment is currently sized 2017x2017 which I find to big to work with. Is there anyway to bring this down whilst containing the details of the landscape?