Saul Espinosa

Patreon Tutorial #30 - SideFX Labs Mapbox - DEM Terrain Import & Masks - Part 1 (Patreon)

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2020-10-04 20:00:04

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Hey guys! This is part 1 of a new tutorial exploring the SideFX Labs Mapbox tool inside of Houdini. In this first part I will be going over how to use the node to download DEM heightfield data from Mapbox, some of the parameters in the node and how we can import this data to use either as polygons or with the native heightfield tools found in houdini.

Towards the second half of this video I will show you how we can use the native heightfield tools to further manipulate our imported terrain and generate masks we can use. The mapbox node is a great tool for quickly getting a nice foundation terrain from real world data that we can further edit and manipulate inside of Houdini. In the second part of this tutorial I will be going over scattering, Gaea integration, and PDG/TOPs.

I have included the files below for you follow along and explore. As usual please download every file and just unzip the first file with 7zip, this will extract all the split archives into a single location. Enjoy!

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