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TOTAL DURATION: 44m 59s

Project Dryad is a set of tools designed to create large, procedural worlds, based on real-world observations and research of biomes and natural phenomenon to world generation. This lesson takes a look at the first three released tools created for this system: Biome Initialize, Biome Curve Setup, and Biome Profile. These three tools were created to process input terrain and biome regions in a variety of ways to be able to adapt to different workflows and creative solutions. More tools will be coming in the future.

The Dryad tools are developed by the SideFX Labs team and they are currently in beta and subject to change as the toolset grows. These tutorials reflect their current state as of SideFX Labs release 20.0.697.

1 | Introduction [01:35]
An overview of the Dryad tools and an introduction to the video series.
2 | Biome Initialize SOP - Terrain [05:13]
Learn how to use Biome Initialize to process terrain input. Terrain input options include Houdini HeightFields, polygonal meshes, and heightmasks.
3 | Biome Initialize and Biome Curve Setup SOP - Biome Regions [29:51]
Learn how to use Biome Initialize and Biome Curve Setup to denote biome regions to use in Dryad’s system. Biome input options include images, Photoshop files, Houdini curves, Houdini HeightField Layers, and attributes from geometry.
4 | Biome Initialize, What’s Next? [02:35]
Explore the applications of processed terrain and generated biome regions.
5 | Biome Profile SOP [05:41]
Learn how to use Biome Profile to set up different biome specifications and attributes for the different biome regions generated with Biome Initialize. Biome profiles are saved to an external JSON for ease of sharing and storing custom attributes.

COMMENTS

  • kuimig 11 months, 4 weeks ago  | 

    沙发：）

    • Igrom 11 months, 4 weeks ago  | 

      Cool! I'm waiting for the continuation!

      • Transla_ven 11 months, 1 week ago  | 

        Hello,not provide project file?

        • vinyvince 8 months, 2 weeks ago  | 

          I don't understand this Biome serie or Toolkit initiate by the labs. I tried hard , thinking i as missing something, but...

          Pardon me, but that looks like a solution for the 2000's, we certainly expect more today and it does not even look completed

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