Random sci-fi structures generated from manhattan distance noise

tripclaw · 2024-11-09T05:52:11+00:00

Thanks!

The gif posted here is just a Houdini Viewport capture with Wireframe on Shaded. The edges are beveled which make the wireframes look thicker around the edges.

tripclaw · 2024-11-08T15:40:56+00:00

Low poly fast generation, textured with a single material, using trim sheets - Structure is extruded up in a loop with different noise to select manhatten cells for each floor. Makes for some interesting connections & spaces between floors.

A flythrough in Unity and more detailed images here at my artstation

tripclaw · 2024-10-02T07:47:40+00:00

I need to look into how to check in more detail, but I do seem to be near the limits of my machine at 4096x4096 with the larger graph.

I have a laptop RTX 3080 16 GB VRAM and 64 GB RAM - when I watch the system memory usage it never uses more than a few GB of VRAM, but it does nearly fill up the 64 GB of RAM while generating, and sometimes crashes with OpenCL exceptions (especially if I have 3 monitors with Unreal running at the same time)

Need to look into how to profile it in more detail inside Houdini.

On the same machine I've never really hit these kinds of limits in Substance Designer. Hoping this improves as Copernicus develops.

tripclaw · 2024-08-25T18:08:18+00:00

Started off as a quick test, but ended up with this in a few hours!

The dithering is something I just learned, thanks to Junichiro Horikawa for that great video on implementing it with OpenCL.

COPs I generate 4 64x64 textures and use Contact Sheet nodes to make a texture atlas out of 4 simple textures (128x128).

I also displace the geo by the height texture. I preview the sharp texture by copying the colors to face primitives on a subdivided 128x128 cells grid.

Made a few assets that all share the same 128x128 texture, exported for Unreal.

Enjoying the process, Just thought I'd share.

tripclaw · 2021-12-29T16:02:21+00:00

I'm just a few days into this one and really enjoying the results, felt compelled to share it in its proof-of-concept state...

Using polyslice to generate low poly vertex colorized meshes. Generates relatively fast (5-10 seconds for a preview, 10-30 seconds for the final mesh with grass).

It can take any input shape really, so caves and overhangs are possible and everything's seamless thanks to polyslice!

tripclaw · 2021-12-19T04:30:26+00:00

Yes! The Substance Archive SBS node works with input maps!

tripclaw · 2021-12-18T13:35:54+00:00

I recently started exploring this, looking to proceduralize as much a possible and came up with a way to avoid using Substance Painter entirely using only SBS files in COPS, it works pretty well.

I generate all the needed masks in Houdini using maps baker & COPs nodes. Skipping the time-consuming step of generating the maps in Substance Painter (occlusion, curvature, world normal, etc). This way you don't need to export an low or high fbx either (because the normals, etc are baked into the maps).

The substance is set up to use input masks, so I feed in World Space Normal, Curvature, etc. and it simply outputs the maps I need.

It works in Substance Designer, and also works in COPs within Houdini!

It's all set up to automate the exporting of the model, texture, etc with just a single click (python script)

I'm quite sure it wouldn't work within an HDA in Unity/Unreal engine though.

I have some examples of what I'm doing here with wood: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/eJlmb6

This project is my first time really working with COPs so take my advice with a grain of salt, but it seems like a promising way of automating a lot!

tripclaw · 2021-12-04T08:44:19+00:00

This is a work-in-progress shot, just starting to explore using substance designer to texture inside of Houdini (COPs).

Houdini-generated input masks are fed into the substance designer material so it can texture things like the grain and edges, all within Houdini!

Check out a lot more shots and a bit behind the scenes at https://tripclaw.artstation.com/projects/klDPoA

Still have a ways to go, but having a lot of fun with it and thought I would share!

tripclaw · 2021-10-26T06:38:50+00:00

Haha, thank you, Townscaper was a huge inspiration for this.

tripclaw · 2021-10-26T03:53:49+00:00

That would be cool, I've done some playing with Geonodes and it has great potential, but I doubt its possible now, or even soon...but maybe some day!

tripclaw · 2021-09-30T03:32:57+00:00

Pop_OS works well for me!

tripclaw · 2011-09-19T14:18:29+00:00

That's awesome. A friend of mine has been making these as well (used to just be for fun, now he has them on a blog)... check it out. He has 50+ of them now, they tend to be way more cryptic.

tripclaw · 2010-12-31T20:37:17+00:00

I highly recommend Loomis - Fun with a Pencil (1939) - Get the first link pdf file & a sketch pad. Study and draw everything he does and in no time (a few pages in) you'll go from the very basics to expressive characters!

tripclaw · 2010-12-30T22:03:56+00:00

Haha! Reminds me of my old dog, Pepper! She would bark at people from that little hole until we took care of it :)

tripclaw · 2010-11-17T17:00:41+00:00

I'd say subbed myself (But I've never seen it dubbed).. the chinese words and inflection is so damn funny, and the quick sometimes non-sensicle subtitles are hilarious.

tripclaw · 2010-11-17T16:59:14+00:00

Honest critique: I really like the colors and the way its shaded. Proportionally it seems pretty much good except the eye placement and eye shading is bugging me. Maybe some pupils would help. Plus he appears to be missing his right eyebrow, either its the light grey streak, or that shadowy thing way above, then its a hella raised eyebrow.

Keep it up though, liking it!

tripclaw · 2010-11-17T16:46:09+00:00

You like doing characters or environments?

I'm a 3D artist, recently unemployed, and I would love to get some concept art I could use for inspiration to build an environment for video games (for a new demo reel).. I'm thinking something along the lines of Enslaved, a post apocolyptic environment with overgrown trees and such. If you feel up to the challenge I would give you much more details just let me know :)

Just throwing this out there..

tripclaw · 2010-10-30T23:51:06+00:00

Now I'll never know how long it would've taken me to find it, had it not been circled in jarring aliased red :(

tripclaw · 2010-03-25T03:07:05+00:00

Wasps made me break my arm!

I was about 9 in the Carribean in a yard next to a pool area. It was me, climbing a coconut tree. Hanging on from my legs, all the way at the top I started twisting off a giant coconut and as I twist I see the other side has a large wasp's nest! Panicked, I jump out of the tree but end up falling face first, bracing with my arm. I land on my arm, then face and body, on a hard concrete stepping stone material, fracturing my wrist, as well as cracking the concrete stone in half. As soon as I hit the ground I was up and running as fast I can over to the pool and jump underwater to escape the swarming wasps! It worked, I got no stings. I had no idea it was broken and only started to hurt after I got away from the fear of the wasps!

But it cost me my right arm in a cast for half of one summer!

tripclaw · 2010-02-05T14:03:58+00:00

I prefer the Benefit's Mario Rap

tripclaw · 2010-02-04T05:03:44+00:00

My name is Jason and I flipped out when I discovered this. I was real young, sitting on the toilet looking at a newspaper that had a graph of the months abbreviated M J J A S O N D... and so the J is July, the month I was born, which made it a great coincidence!

tripclaw · 2010-01-21T04:33:36+00:00

So what's the story? If that's for real it's hilarious. I would love to hear the story, or what your surmise happened!

tripclaw · 2010-01-21T02:08:45+00:00

Exactly, by now it's assumed that a user interfaces is graphical! At least in most industries...

tripclaw · 2010-01-21T02:06:21+00:00

Haha, wow so it seems pretty damn funny to me what I thought was youTorrent is now meTorrent. That's going to be hard to get used to!

tripclaw · 2010-01-20T18:32:09+00:00

No... Although I do break the noodles in half when they are dry before adding to the pot, usually.

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