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Procedural Construction Tool
Function: This is a tool which creates and allows the user to create generative constructs in various shapes, size, type, fonts, variations and colors to create still images or further animations. This tool provides an advantage of creating small scale to large scale generative customizable constructs in just a click.
This technical breakdown below explains how a custom user interface for Houdini.
Note: This tool will work only on Houdini 18 or above.
Renders
Input Geometry
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Input geometries(Customizable)
Input geometries video
This tool randomly juxtaposes the inputs into the selected shape/type of the appropriate size/font respectively. Following are the default inputs used.
How to Use
Controls and Functions
After Adding Random Color
The video demonstrates the following:-
1. Variation
2. Add Randomize Color
3. Color Variation
4. Color Intensity
The video demonstrates the following:-
1. Shape selection
2. Visualize geo
3. Sizing of every shape
Recommended Steps:
i. Select the desired shape.
ii. Click the "Visualize geo" in order to see the reference geometry for optimization and visualization purposes.
iii. Create the appropriate size of the selected shape.
iv. Once proportions of the object are finalized, untick the "Visualize geo".
v. This will fill the details by the constructs. Experiment and Play!
Final Thoughts
I found this very interesting as after time to time I kept on increasing the potential options provided. There are still some more options which can be added, but I could add only the above in the provided timeframe.
If I would have more time, I would have love to explore some common flaws. They are the following:
i. More sophisticated sharing and installing method rather than copy paste and generate.
ii. Implementing Instances to make the output more lighter and faster to calculate.
iii. Adding a preview poster image for the tool.
iv. Customizable input options on the UI.
v. Providing more versatile Color options than Color Randomizations.
v. Providing animation toolset options.