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Doors – update 2

26.10.202014.01.2021 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 0

Recently I started working on the next part of the short film. For that I needed to create a room full of old-school looking mainframe computers – with a lot of gauges, indicators and other techy details on them. Because […]

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Set UV island texel density

15.10.202015.10.2020 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 17

Today I needed to enforce certain texel density for my procedurally generated meshes in Houdini. I found this tool, but unfortunately supplied HDA did not work on my Indie license and it was locked, so I had to recreate this […]

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Doors – update 1

26.09.202026.10.2020 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 0

A while ago I started working on a short film idea. Due to different reasons (read – life), it took a while to finish the concept phase. The idea behind a story is my personal journey through different parts of […]

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Automatic material creation in Unreal Engine with Python

05.09.202006.09.2020 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 1

Potential task for automation is creation of material instances for a lot of meshes. For example, I use Houdini to generate a lot of assets procedurally – models with baked texture maps. Importing all these meshes, textures and creating material […]

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Automating Unreal Engine editor with Python

05.09.2020 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 0

Unreal Engine gives you several options to create custom tools for automating tasks in Unreal Editor. You can write C++ code, create Editor Utility Blueprints or write Python. While Blueprints are cool, Python is industry standard for writing pipeline tools […]

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Creating procedural game assets with Houdini. Part 4

13.12.201915.10.2020 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 6

PDG (Procedural Dependency Graph) is a recently added feature in Houdini. It is meant for building networks (not just chains) of tasks, where each task might have some sort of dependency on others and Houdini then knows how to execute […]

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Creating procedural game assets with Houdini. Part 3

12.12.201907.01.2020 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 0

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Creating procedural game assets with Houdini. Part 2

12.12.201907.01.2020 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 0

First let’s start with a little demo of what I achieved with rock generation. Here I demonstrate two different rock styles generation from the same input geometry – rendered in Blender Eeevee. To play with one of the demo asset […]

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Creating procedural game assets with Houdini. Part 1

12.12.201907.01.2020 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 2

During development of the project “Collector”, while sculpting cave walls and stones by hand, I once again decided that I need to find more efficient – procedural way of building assets. As they say – proceduralism is the future. In this […]

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Blender Multi Render script

02.09.201902.09.2019 ByGatis Kurzemnieks 2

If you are doing any kind of product visualization work, you have probably met with a situation where you need to render multiple camera angles of a product with multiple material variations on it. Doing it by hand can be […]

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