Hi there,
Constantly been upgrading my houdini tools for environment creation over the past months.
Thanks guys for your feedbacks and patience, it helped me a lot pushing my skills to improve tools and finally dig into Python modules for HDAs.
Still a lot to learn, and for sure more things to improve but since the tools already changed so much since my first tutorial with v1.0, I think it's about time to see how things evolved !
Those who already bought them, AL-Tools v5 is available for free in your gumroad or artstation library.
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What's new ?
AL-MaskBuilder update :
- Map UDIM / Bug fix
- Paint Attribute Button in Attribute01 TAB
AL-TerrainExporter update :
- Simplified export of heightfield mesh and maps.
AL-AdvancedScatter update :
-Ability to paint attributes for scattering from the AttributeDistribution TAB : button "Paint Mask"
-Motion TAB to control animation cache of the scattered objects
- object to scatter : ID1 is the default geometry if "Enable Variations" is off. ID distributions is now control from red to blue / first ID to last ID.
- New node input to connect the surface to scatter. (still keeping the option to objectmerge into the tool, if input is used objectmerge is off)
- Map UDIM / bug fixing
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I did a presentation for sidefx "Houdini Hive" last May, I am showing how I made the illustration "Unexpected path", was made with the previous version of the tools but can still give some good insights about scattering :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDdI5Lx08U&t=1108s
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AL-Tools and where to find them... Upgrades are available in :
-AL/Tools only :
https://gumroad.com/adrienlambert/#NZtu
https://adrienlambert.artstation.com/store/L3xD/sidefx-houdini-al_tools-ultimate-terrain-workflow
- AL-Tools + UltimateTerrainWorkflow project files :
https://gumroad.com/adrienlambert/#uIAbr
- Tutorial / Procedural Cliff - BUNDLE VERSION (include AL-AdvancedScatter + AL-MaskBuilder)
https://gumroad.com/adrienlambert/#pYaGH
- AL-MaskBuilder available on gumroad by itself :
https://gumroad.com/adrienlambert/#AswVG
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See you soon !