Saturday, August 23rd, 2025Posted by Jim ThackerMaster Procedural Workflows for Games Using Houdinihtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"The Gnomon Workshop has released Procedural Workflows for Games Using Houdini, a guide to procedural asset-creation workflows, recorded by Respawn Entertainments Giovani Magana.It follows Maganis introductory tutorial Creating Assets & Architecture for Games Environments, and provides over four hours of video training in Houdini, ZBrush and Unreal Engine.Create environment assets for videogames using HoudiniThe workshop runs through the entire process of creating a stylized fantasy environment suitable for use in a videogame, using artist-friendly procedural workflows.Magana begins in Houdini, building key architectural elements, including walls, floors, and pillars, and setting up a clean, modular blockout, before detailing the set pieces. He also discusses how to build a custom Digital Asset Library to speed up iteration, and how he creates rock formations with very little sculpting, while still retaining control over overall form.Next, Magana explores how to blend assets naturally into the environment, creating an Unreal Engine master material to introduce variation into the 3D models.To complete the stylized fantasy theme, he also explores to how generate complex crystal formations procedurally and how to prepare them for texturing and shading.Finally, Magana takes a quick look at some of his favorite features in Unreal Engine, including the Procedural Content Generation framework (PCG) and Chaos Destructions Fracture mode.About the artistGiovani Magana is Senior Environment Artist at Respawn Entertainment, and has been working professionally in the games industry as an environment artist for nine years.His credits include The Walking Dead, God of War Ragnark, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.Pricing and availabilityProcedural Workflows for Games Using Houdini is available via a subscription to The Gnomon Workshop, which provides access to over 300 tutorials.Subscriptions cost $57/month or $499/year. Free trials are available.Read more about Procedural Workflows for Games Using HoudiniHave your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we dont post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects.Full disclosure: CG Channel is owned by Gnomon.Latest NewsMaster Procedural Workflows for Games Using HoudiniMaster professional workflows for creating games environments with The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level tutorial.Saturday, August 23rd, 2025RE:Vision Effects releases video and animation upscaler REZUp 2Check out the new machine learning models in the pro upscaling plugin for compositing and video editing applications.Friday, August 22nd, 2025AMD releases FidelityFX SDK 2.0 and UE5 plugin with FSR 4 supportSDK for developers looking to integrate FidelityFX tech into their apps now includes latest version of the AI image upscaling system.Thursday, August 21st, 2025CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2025.1Clothing design tool gets the option to create garment parts by drawing onto a 3D avatar, and an AI Pose Generator. See the other changes.Thursday, August 21st, 2025Adobe releases Photoshop 26.10Minor update to the image-editing and digital painting software adds a new Star tool for drawing regular star polygons on the canvas.Wednesday, August 20th, 2025Unity rolls out Unity AI in Unity 6.2Game engine's new AI toolset includes generative AI features for creating sprites, textures and animations. Check out our FAQs.Tuesday, August 19th, 2025More NewsSitni Sati releases FumeFX 7.0 for 3ds MaxZibraVDB for Houdini and UE5 is now free to indie artistsSneak peek: Axiom 4 for HoudiniMarmoset releases Toolbag 5.02Adobe launches free asset review tool Substance 3D ReviewerMatPlus puts Substance 3D-style texture painting inside BlenderTutorial: Fantasy Creature Texturing & Look DevUVPackmaster 3.4 for Blender adds one-click UV repackingAdobe releases After Effects 25.4NVIDIA unveils two compact new RTX PRO Blackwell GPUsGet 165 3D assets for creating a warehouse scene in Unreal EngineAutodesk cuts prices of Flow Studio subscriptionsOlder Posts