Learn To Bridge Houdini To Unreal Engine For Games With This Course

Led by Grayson Cotrell, a Gnomon School of Visual Effects graduate and a Dynamics Technical Artist at Naughty Dog, this course will help you master setting up HDAs to use inside Unreal Engine to create real-time, game-ready procedural assets.

Provided with an artist-friendly setup, you'll learn to think like a technical artist and tackle problems in efficient ways that produce results optimized for games, with all these skills easily transferred directly to a production environment, where you will be able to set up HDAs for your entire department.

DoubleJump Academy's teaching is hands-on and project-based, putting theory into practice. Here's an overview of what you will learn in these productive eight weeks:

• Week 1. Procedural Bridge: Getting Started & Modeling – Transfer data from Houdini To Unreal via Houdini Engine, create the first HDA for UE, and learn the foundations of procedural modeling
• Week 2. Procedural Bridge: Texturing, Vellum Simulations, & Alembic Workflows – Learn how you can harvest the power of Houdini to help create materials for UE, set up a cohesive Vellum simulation, and get a simulation integrated into UE
• Week 3. Procedural Destruction From Houdini To Unreal – Create an advanced fracture setup, set up physics in UE from Houdini Attributes, and dive into Blueprinting in UE
• Week 4. Procedural Infection Part 1: Growth Algorithm And Mesh Creation – Dive deep into creating a growth algorithm Inside Houdini, learning how to utilize For-Loops and Vex To a high potential
• Week 5. Procedural Infection Part 2: Unreal Engine Advanced Material Setup – Use our tool in UE and create beautiful Ethereal Material, Tri-Planar & Screen Space Projections for a sci-fi/fantasy feeling
• Week 6. Modular Pipe Generation – Learn the foundations for setting up modular asset placement procedurally and look at 3D path generation inside Houdini
• Week 7. Presenting Work Through Environment Creation: Foundations And Lighting – Choosing animation takes, setting up shots, an interior environment in UE to showcase your tools complete with lighting, camera setups, & foliage placement
• Week 8. Presenting Work Through Environment Creation: Polish And Rendering – Polish up the environment with decal placement, color correction & rendering

Houdini for Games in Unreal Engine course starts on July 8th. Learn more and enroll by clicking this link. Also, don't forget to join our 80 Level Talent platform and our Telegram channel, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Reddit, where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.