Procedural World Generation of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 | Etienne Carrier | Houdini HIVE Utrecht
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2018
- How do you create 100 square km of wilderness with a terrain changing every day? One of the challenges with a modern open world is its sheer size. Not every square meter of the world will receive the attention of a level artist or a level designer. Yet while filling empty space is easy, creating natural-looking environments is a bigger challenge.
Ubisoft's solution on 'Far Cry 5' was to develop a set of procedural tools to generate biomes, texture the terrain, setup freshwater networks, generate cliff rocks and more. Procedural technical artist Étienne Carrier walks you through how they tacked this challenge... - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Such a valuable presentation and only 1500 views. This is pure gold and deserves more attention!
I feel the same way! Feel very fortunate to have come across it. It will make learning Houdini just that little bit easier.
@Rahul Verma I highly doubt people don't know what a 3D model is.
Houdini, There Is Nothing To Learn, This Is Premade Software, Also The Only Issue Is There Are NO Proper Tutorials To Follow, For Example: Create Terrain, Texture IT, Export It For Maya Or Unreal Or Anything, There Needs To Be A Proper Down To Earth, No BS Tutorial To Help Individuals Who Don't Want To Know What Each Node Does, But To Use It To Make Something, Simple, Just Make Tuts, To Help People, Thats The Issue Here, Uhhh
@@GameDevAraz the whole Houdini channel is full of tutorials and their website has a dedicated learning section. This is not a tutorial, this is just a technical overlook or breakdown.
@@xanzuls well right or wrong, I'm not gonna stand here and say I'm snart, but I admit I was quick to talk
One of the most amazing world editing procedures i have ever seen.
Putting together this presentation must have been a lot of work, and it's appreciated. I do procedural environments in Unity, and it's encouraging to see the process is really similar to what you're doing in triple A. I learned a lot of little techniques here too, like the colour map variations, and its just fascinating in general to see how people work and get an education. Thanks very much for sharing this, and Im looking forward to seeing what Ubisoft comes up with next:)
The amount of work just crazy. And that nature details, grass rotated to wind direction! Good job.
It blew my mind! We cannot thank you enough.
Very nice, it seems to be a similar workflow than what it was done by the french team with Ghost Recon Wildlands. Houdini as a DCC has become the key for procedural terrain generation. I'm also developing a Vulkan Rendering Engine for terrain visualization, and this video and the one for Wildlands still a reference for Houdini integration. Thanks for sharing this workflow with us !
A lot of Ubisoft studios work on multiple Ubisoft projects, so I'm sure that a huge part of their Houdini pipeline is standardized between each studio
An incredible talk about an incredible tool - thank you!
Audio needs to be boosted please.
Sound is too low.
I listened to it on iPad and it was a lot louder than on desktop
Strange
sound? what sound..
Such a great presentation!
It is insane. i love Far cry 5 and i cannot wait FAR CRY 6
I would like to ask if original presentation can be put somewhere to download as talker obviously does snot have enough time to go through it but there might be some very important pieces of information left. I would welcome to see whole presentation. It is very interesting topic and good talk. Thank you Étienne Carrier for taking time to explain all of this. Much appreciated.
Bon travail! Du terrain dans houdini ça semble cool!
This looks fascinating and easy with tools.. unreal and unity should add such tools to help level designers
Amazing ! Looks simple, just have to understand the nature rules but the thing it's to make it ahaha, big up to the ubi tech artists !
Amazing talk and phenomenal tool. Very impressed!
wow. very interesting! i wonder how game design will look in 50 years
This is the quietest video I never heard.
The water tool part is vague. I wonder how the tool generates branching rivers. And how are they able to edit the river part terrain if a spline is dominating the terrain, so do they still keep the spline Info after the water is 'Cooked'?
regarding the biome tool: was the vegetation (plants, trees, bushes) also procedurally created in Houdini? Or was it composed by pre-existent fixed meshes?
They explain this during the presentation around 35:00
The guy sounds so nervous. I feel for you buddy
great game, great work :)
FantastiKoo !
Awesome
Awesome talk Etienne ! One thing no one talk in different making of Ubisoft games done in Houdini, is how did you handle transition between maps, sectors ? does each artists had to lock a map ? could he worked on the edges ? did you automatically merge the edges between each maps ? Also if you doing a talk in Montreal maybe in a MeetUp, don't hesitate to send an invite. Thanks
They don t used procedural building placement or even procedural building creation ?
This is fascinating. However I can never understand how people can upload things like this without fixing obvious big problems such as the almost inaudible sound in this video. Would have been a very simple fix.
because by the time the video gets to the guy in charage of the uploader its not his job to fix the audio
why is the volume so low
Please edit the audio, and reupload
It's pretty weird that they don't take the procedural generation a step further and define the road with a fence attribute, erosion etc so the artist essentially only have to fill in areas. Taking it to the limit you can have self generating map design based upon high level specific attributes like poor outpost that will define erosion, quality of materials, loot, etc.. the more maps you can generate and the more they're tested the longer you can retain players, sell map packs and have online multiplayer streaming which equals selling more games.
insane.
OOOOOOMMMGGG
Whats ur tool name ?
For anyone upset about the audio, just download an audio booster chrome extension. Easy fix. Sounds great
The GDC version just got released, much better quality and audio: th-cam.com/video/JBp8zvLVsgg/w-d-xo.html
I join the other in the comments, audio is wayyy too low !
Holy fuck me, I want these tools for my own games :P
Can I have the biome tool? xD hahaha that's quite amazing btw :)
If you use unreal engine this functionality pretty much comes out of the box, but as a developer youre still going to have to do ALL the heavy lifting, but it's still so very fun :)
yeah I enjoy both parts! :)
Plus, a lot of industry standards rely on masks, whether it's placing textures on the terrain or spawning foliage instances, just need to tie them all up in one nice package
Fascinate para un silvicultor comprometido con la restauracion de paisajes deforestados.
Dunia means "world" in Arabic
As impressive as this is, I sincerely would have wished that they put the same amount of effort into story, in game AI and character diversity. It's a shame that Far Cry 5 looks incredible and would be so much fun to actually play if it weren't for boring protagonists and antagonists and enemies that all look the same and are as smart as a bag of potatoes. Here's hoping that now that they have this amazing engine they will make a better game next time!
so basically houdini its a God tool
An amazing tool for world generation. With its latest updates it mind blowing.
can barely hear him.
Textures aaeemmm can be aeeemm...
If i got a friggin Cent for every ahhhhhh i would be a millonaire at the end of the video
First! Thanks for sharing
Way too quiet
Great work.... Too bad you had to make the game unplayable with unskippable cutscenes. Seriously dumb decision.
Haha. Wow. Why skip the fucking cutscenes... That's the most important part, it's tells you the story of the fuckin game. I could only imagine if able to, you skipped every cutscene, you would have no clue what the game is about or why everything is happening, or why this guy decided to do this. Or why the game needs you to go do that. The cutscenes are so vital to a games narrative. You can't skip them because they are what makes all the hard work of every developer that spent 2 and a half years working actually mean something.
facts@@K0LBIE
Yes, this is a great tool. But overall, generating the entire map (or almost) proceradurily gives you a world with no soul. FC5 felt too much "generic", unlike FC4 and FC3. I get that this is a precious gain of time, but even with that time you couldn't even have a correct physics engine or a stable game at launch.
Speak UP Dude, Or Use Some Mic Or Something, I Can Hear Flies Louder Then This lol
if they only put the same effort into the AI . . .
Far cry 5 was terrible
Was great
Was mixed
It's very interesting what you have to say, BUT PLEASE take the time to work on your speaking skills before giving a presentation. It's really hard to watch and very distracting/annoying if you say "uh" after every third word. It's just noise. I dare you, Etienne Carrier, to watch 5min and count the um's. I find it nearly unwatchable. And that's very sad, since it's very interesting what you have to say.
I think it might be a French thing. I think they say "uh" a lot.