Technical Artist Diego B. showed a procedural Houdini tool for creating relief maps.
The tool might come in useful if you need to generate fully customizable relief maps, for instance, for real-time strategy video games. It allows you to use any topographic map you want and then adjust elevation variations, create different display modes, include a Minecraft-style mode for displaying topography in columns, and create a height map with configurable orography.
Diego B. has showcased many procedural tools for streamlining 3D workflow, such as this Houdini-based tool for creating pumpkins, a tool for creating rocks and meteors in ZBrush, solutions for crafting prototype cities and creating a board suitable for board games in Houdini, and more:
