On a game like Uncharted 4, that’s mostly rigid body fracturing and destruction. 6- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s Endįor The most part, Naughty Dog, the developers of Uncharted 4 used SideFX Houdini in Video games, especially, when they created pre-baked animations, either through Dynamic Operators or Surface Operators, which then gets transferred to the game engine via joint animation in Maya.
In addition to that, the flexibility Houdini provides to move data around from one type to another is a great match with the creative thinking of coders that are developing a game engine. Also, last-minute changes take place and Houdini’s non-destructive workflow makes those changes easier. Taking a procedural approach allowed them to tweak the parameters of an effect to find the minimum in render performance or memory footprint, without changing the essence of the effect itself. Rendering in Houdini allowed them to separate different lighting passes and their motion vectors making it easier to fluently integrate the effects in a real-time scene. Houdini’s ability to render a complete effect as an animated sprite helped Guerrilla Games retain the fine details. In Killzone: Shadow Fall, the effects work got much more ambitious and Houdini played a big part. Houdini has been used to generate a wide range of realistic in-game effects ranging from ocean waves, destruction, cloth simulations, terrain generation and more. In addition to that, they used Houdini’s tool building features by supplying the game artists with small tools to quickly populate the environment, such as adding roads, fences, and so on. Since Mafia III is a large open-world game, it is time-consuming in terms of how much content they had to build, so, they made sure to use Houdini for a number of tasks, for example, they used it to update a large number of items scattered all around the city using point clouds to distribute objects in the massive open-world game, which left more time for designer to focus on more creative tasks. They also used Pyro and FLIP fluids to generate sprite content, these are flipboats of sims that then played on camera facing particles. Mafia 3 is a story-driven open-world game from a studio called Hangar 13, in which, the developers used Houdini primarily for soft body and rigid body simulation, they used it on big set pieces such as towers, and bridges falling down, and they leveraged Houdini’s core competency in dynamics to generate that content.
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