In nuce: Tech artist Simon Verstraete has unveiled his low-poly city generator on social media. Simon developed his generator using Houdini and Unreal Engine 5. In his Twitter post, Simon informs his followers that the generator primarily uses Houdini’s Point Clouds to place assets – whereas vehicles travel from point A to point B within the procedurally generated city using the Curve Node. For the assets that can be seen in the demonstration of his generator, Simon uses various asset packages from Synty Studios (available on the Unreal Engine Marketplace).
Clicked further: Tech artist Simon Verstraete is no stranger to readers of Digital Production. DP first reported on Simon on 20 April 2020, when his tutorial series Dungeon Generator informed interested parties about how level design can be approached procedurally. After that, on 28 January 2021, it was the Tree Generator tutorial series that provided virtual reforestation. And finally, on 14.12.2021 , DP reported on Simon’s Edge Smooth OP tool for Houdini, with which users can create stylised objects and organic patterns for VFX textures. All tutorials & tools are aimed at Houdini users. Freelance Houdini & Tech Artist Simon Verstraete can be reached via Twitter .
