The tool will help you create bookcases of any shape and automatically place books into them.
Check out BooKit 1.0 by Nam Phuong – a Houdini add-on that allows you to make bookshelves and generate books procedurally.
The package features:
- Real-time & instant feedback from the generator's engine.
- Artist-friendly controls with documented Help on each parameter.
- Generate contents with any shape, patterns, 3D objects (with a proper guide).
- Procedural Placement for 3D assets (with item_importer.hda).
- Automatic Texture Assignment.
It also includes the files:
- quickPattern.1.4.hda (open)
- item_importer.1.11.hda (open)
- bookitmaterial.1.1.hda (open)
- copytoshelf.1.16_LOCK.hda (blackboxed)
- ReadMe.txt: installation guide
- BooKit_HIP_demo_scene: Demo Scene project file of 10 different generated shelves in the teaser using this HDA package(not including the items).
To use the add-on, you need to have some basic Houdini knowledge and Houdini version 19 or newer.
Aside from this add-on, the artist has made a procedural ivy/vines generator and a tutorial on how to match assets layout from other 3D modeling tools to Houdini.
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