Biome Demo

Learn how to scatter plants based on real-world properties of biomes, environmental influences, and plant interactions. This annotated project steps through each tool of the entire suite of alpha biome tools released by SideFX Labs.

The advanced, scientifically-based system models the underlying processes that occur in nature. Users generate biome regions that control the placement of the initial environmental attributes on a terrain. These attributes are evolved by the terrain shape to reproduce various environmental impacts such as rain shadow, wind exposure, soil quality, and temperature change with elevation. Plants are then matched with areas with their preferred climate and soil conditions, where they compete with nearby plants for resources, and the strongest survive.

Some biome tools require Houdini version 20.5 or newer.