Patreon Tutorial #30 - SideFX Labs Mapbox - Terrain Import & Scatter *Available Oct 4th* (Patreon)

Hey guys! This months tutorial is going to be covering the SideFX Labs Mapbox Tool. This tutorial will be available to all my Patrons October 4th. The Mapbox node pulls in DEM data from satellites using Mapbox's system. This node has existed for a while now in Houdini but I noticed a lot of people are completely unaware of it and how it works. There was a recent update to it which added PDG support and so I decided it would make a nice tutorial.

This tutorial will be going over the tool, how to import terrains, how we can modify this data with the height-fields tools or Quadspinner Gaea. Scattering points on our terrain to instance some Redshift proxies. How we can export this data as poly's or height-fields and finally how we can use PDG to automate this process to make larger terrains.

This is a fun tool and I hope to see more people use it. Thanks again for all the support here on Patreon & Youtube.