Crafting Terrains for The Dawning | Nikola Damjanov

During this session we will breakdown the techniques used for making the Mars landscape as seen in the short movie "The Dawning". We will analyze several heightfield and modelling approaches at scale - from closeup cracked ground, strata cliffs to vast landscapes.
For more info, visit www.sidefx.com/dawning

[@cornuArietis]

The best Houdini terrain examples I have seen so far! My hat down!

[@damjanmx]

OH.....that is awesome to hear, thanks! :)

[@PawelGrzelak]

Oh, oh oh ohoooho, fantastic, thank you Nikola.

[@kamazooliy]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I appreciated how swift you went through the project flow. Some good ideas for HDA setup practice. Thank you and the rest of the team!

[@damjanmx]

You are welcome!

[@TrinhStudios]

I always wondered how to create those cliffs. This is super awesome :) thx for the video.

[@damjanmx]

My pleasure!

[@eggZ663]

This is gold, nice and fast breakdown, looks fantastic!

[@damjanmx]

Thanks! I was afraid it might be too fast...

[@eggZ663]

@@damjanmx Nah it's good. I think sometimes it's enough to just show a certain workflow and let people figure out the rest for themselves. You'll never be able to go into every single node and what it's doing or you'll be here for days! :D

[@MrKarolWlodarczyk]

Dude! Amazing. More!
Thanks :)

[@corentinprovost903]

awesome content here, thx for sharing

[@sant0sch]

I am glad, there are more Houdini artists that have a chaos node setup :D
Thx for the video, some helpfull tips! :)

[@damjanmx]

hehehe :D I'm not usually this messy but I could get away with it this time as I was the only artist working on it :)

[@cihankenar1]

Love these videos

[@liamwhitehouse9428]

I agree @cornuArietis The best Houdini terrain examples I've seen on the internet. Super cool work you guys.

[@anxhelo7383]

very helpful! thanks

[@kdbrastudio]

Thanks! And now I must pump my terrains with slumps! :)

[@keltart809]

great terrain example! how does it cook so fast? i see you viewing nodes so quick

[@GameDevAraz]

Where Are Actual Tutorials I Can Follow, Aint No Body Got Time For This

[@ziyaddin88]

I have a question! At the end the padding was added to each udim. But when we exported the layers through the Labs Terrain Layer Export tool, the maps don't have any padding. This issue creates small seams when textured in Substance Painter. How this problem was solved?

[@supaflykai]

is there a hip file for this I can look at? I am some issues at some steps, it would be great to be able to dive into the nodes

[@Alexsp76]

Super tips, thanks very much. Im curious how you set the houdini interface like that. Its really clean, i likes it a lot.

[@audiodrocher]

Search for “toggle stowbars”

[@lucaprones4415]

Brilliant, but that file is a mess.....

[@nicolaastanghe475]

:O

[@dwiinelprotonautaderadioma9480]

gg wp

[@damjanmx]

thx