Volcano and Tree Environment in Unreal Engine 5.1 and Houdini

Recent personal project of a volcano and tree environment in Unreal Engine 5.1. Volcano and tree made in Houdini and brought into Unreal using alembic, flipbook, and Niagara.
Check out more clips and stills at
peterbowlescreates.artstation...

[@AdamWestish]

amazing work!!!

[@khavariv7880]

wow !!!! nice 🌹👌💕💕💕

[@bobcharlotte8724]

you did it... you made me feel sad and or worried for a tree.

[@PeterBowlesify]

haha amazing! And with good reason... in my original sketch the tree actually got struck by the lightning.

[@chinchillaturtle7121]

very very nice, very pretty!

[@Steven_Beddall]

❤❤❤

[@gangalo68]

Add a cell shader and you have an epic intro to an epic anime.
Amazing work!

[@PeterBowlesify]

thanks so much! Maybe i need to learn cell shaders haha

[@imvisuals215]

U have sparked my interest into this pipeline! AMAZING RENDER!!!!!!!

[@TheYashRzSensei07]

❤‍🔥

[@RIP_Day]

That looked awesome

[@PeterBowlesify]

Thanks! Much appreciated :)

[@nintendians]

looks great.

[@PeterBowlesify]

thanks!

[@juandelrioh]

Thank you! it's such a great job!

[@PeterBowlesify]

thank you!

[@vreguera]

This projects looks FANTASTIC. Good idea to bring so many different skills into it. The Houdini/Unreal combo is great. Cool man, really cool. Even the lightning... Congrats!

[@PeterBowlesify]

thanks so much!

[@MortalShores]

Fantastic job Peter! This is breathtaking.

[@PeterBowlesify]

thank you!

[@patrickjesseman354]

Lookin good Peter nice compositing!

[@AidenSoedjarwo]

This is really cool!! Very well done!

[@PeterBowlesify]

thank you! 🙏

[@oxygencube]

Dude, this is sick AF!

[@yinon_tal]

You are very very talented and artistic person. Beautiful result🎉

[@CQF4]

For a rock fall of 400m, you can count 9 seconds. And it is with zero initial velocity. A my opinion you can go up to 12 seconds for a realistic size effect.
Great video.

[@PeterBowlesify]

mmm ya I think you're right, good tip! Next time :)

[@AdiusOmega]

Really cool, is this just some sort of billboard particle rendered out from Houdini? I'm curious how this whole process is done, very cool results.

[@PeterBowlesify]

the main pyro is all flipbook ya with passes for lighting, normals, depth, and emission so that I can tweak them all in Unreal. Then lots of little add on effects made in niagara, but using source particles from houdini as well. I wrote an article about how i did it, almost done but I got busy. I'll post on here when it's done!

[@romainfusilier8806]

Awesome work !!
Could you do please a tutorial on how to import the Houdini simulations in UE5?
Thank you for the inspiration!

[@PeterBowlesify]

Thanks! I'd love to as soon as I have time! Which type of simulation in particular? It varies for different simulations. For smoke and pyro stuff check out the Labs flipbook textures node. Here's a link to a tutorial on it: th-cam.com/video/kMI-Wro3p9g/w-d-xo.html

[@romainfusilier8806]

A big Thank you for you reply !!
Yes it was for the smoke simulation but im also planning to create a plant/tree grow simulation as Well. Have you an idea of a tuto on it?
Have a great day sir and keep going the visual adventure! Its great!

[@messiah001]

Okay, I literally searched Peter Bowles Teaches. Sadly there's nothing 😢any chance you could teach us a thing or two?
Your lava explosion caused my mind to explode🤯
Great job man!

[@easy6310]

I need to know how this was made. It's incredible!

[@PeterBowlesify]

thanks so much! I'm writing an article about how I made it, almost done it but I got busy, I'll post on here when I post it!

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

Really good looking! May I ask how you achieved the lightning strike effects? Is it a buyable asset?

[@PeterBowlesify]

sorry late reply on this! I made the lightning in houdini and then I rendered it as a lighting pass on the smoke plume itself. Unfortunately it's not an asset, but maybe I should make one!

[@ArghanionsPuzzlebox]

@@PeterBowlesify Thanks for the info!

[@neamedia]

Superb volcano scene mate! You showcase some great skill there - are you selling this UE scene by any means? I would like to render some more camera angles and shots out of it for usage in a documentary about volcanos... Our team is about to kitbash a volcano scene out of Marketplace assets, but your art-direction on the scene is exactly what I was aiming for (funny enough!) - Both thumps up anyways.

[@Kletz13]

Hi Peter, awesome work!
I just want to inform you that you have a typo in the artstation link!
There is an "a" too much - links to 404 page not found!
Keep it up, subbed :)

[@PeterBowlesify]

thanks so much for pointing out! Not sure how that happened on a cut and paste but it's fixed now!

[@oguzmuslu]

there is should be tutoriaaalll :)