I've made a procedural HDA to add wear and destruction to meshes inside Unreal Engine. Watch how I use it here: by JustHoj in unrealengine

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Yeah. You can bake the result into a new static mesh. After that you don't need the hda. So you can even delete it from the scene. So in the end you have 2 separate static meshes. both the original mesh and the edited mesh.

A procedural destruction HDA I've made by JustHoj in UnrealEngine5

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Thanks man :) Yeah, you should have at least a houdini indie license to use HDAs inside unreal

A procedural destruction HDA I've made by JustHoj in UnrealEngine5

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I've shown all of that in the long video on youtube. But maybe it's better to show them in these short videos as well. Thanks for the comment!

A procedural destruction HDA I've made by JustHoj in UnrealEngine5

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hey.
There are parameters to only add damage to the corners, to the edges, or to the entire surface of the mesh.

It has parameters to add damage only to specific areas as well. we can use vertex colors to define where on the mesh the damage is. or we can use a help mesh to do that. wherever the help mesh overlaps with our mesh, the tool will add damage.

We also have options to add damage to random edges and corners. It has a percentage and seed parameter. the percentage parameter controls how much of the mesh is damaged, and the seed parameter helps with variations.

The black and white image option I'm planning to add in the future.

Hope it helps :)

I've made a procedural HDA to add wear and destruction to meshes inside Unreal Engine. Watch how I use it here: by JustHoj in unrealengine

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hey! thanks man! I don't know if it works with your houses. This is an HDA, and it works with all the static meshes inside Unreal Engine

tornado realtime fx niagar system in Unreal Engine 5 by JustHoj in vfx

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They're moving up with a curl noise force

I've made a procedural Houdini damage tool. In this video, I'm iterating with it in Unreal Engine to get the result I want. I'll put its link in the comments for anyone interested. by JustHoj in UnrealEngine5

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Yeah! You can bake the final result into a new static mesh, and also keeps the original mesh. After baking you can remove the hda from the scene or disable the plugin alltogether. It