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Procedural World Generation of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 | Etienne Carrier | Houdini HIVE Utrecht

Ubisoft procedural technical artist Etienne Carrier explains the Houdini-based tools used to build Far Cry 5's roughly 100 square km open world. It covers generating biomes, texturing terrain, freshwater networks, cliff rocks and vegetation placement.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN points people to it as a rare, concrete look at how a AAA studio uses procedural tools to fill huge worlds with natural-looking environments.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Houdini
Topic
procedural world generation
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2022

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  • Somewhat related(okay, not really, but still fun) - awesome talks about modern procedural generation techniques(with AI, Houdini, etc): How AI will change 3D industry [LINK] Procedural world generation for Far Cry [VIDEO] Procedurally generating Manhattan for Spider Man [LINK] Mindblowing talks by Anastasia Opara (using …

    rayalez on Hacker News · 2019-06
    In Procedural content generation: creating a universe (2015)

  • You may enjoy this talk, the devs for Far Cry 5 procedurally generated quite a lot of their world, placing plants based on the ground slope, sun, whether they were under power lines, elevation etc. [VIDEO]

    fenwick67 on Hacker News · 2019-10
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  • Looks amazing! Note that the author also has a fantasy city generator: [LINK] And mansion generator: [LINK] If you're into that kind of stuff, there's a world map generator(by different author): [LINK] and this amazing tutorial on generating maps: [LINK] ---- Also, kinda relevant - …

    rayalez on Hacker News · 2019-10
    In One Page Dungeon Generator

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