Interactive Python States
** Interactive Python States | Click-Extrude Tool overview and Favela Generator demo **
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In this video we take a look at python viewer states inside Houdini 18, and how its practicality can help technical artists develop interactive, easy-to-use tools for fast and smart content creation.
This is where all started. On the first iteration of this project the only accepted input was a flat grid. It also relied solely on extruding primitives, which later forced me to search for other alternatives.
Still using an old medieval roof asset I created previously, in here I was already able to achieve the results I envisioned for the cells behavior, but still wasn't satisfied with the fact that only flat inputs were accepted.
The project took a sharp turn, and I decided to attempt and create a tool that could generate favelas (slums) instead of little medieval buildings, to take full artistic advantage of the newly implemented acceptance of any quad grid as input.
I was always concerned about performance, and made sure that everything was inside compiled blocks, whenever applicable. From here, I spent time implementing streets, as well as a random generator within the tool, both of which can be seen in video.