Houdini - Procedural Scandinavian Cottage Generator

For more info on how this was made, check out my interview with 80lvl: https://80.lv/articles/a-detailed-guide-on-setting-up-a-procedural-cabin-generator-in-houdini/

This is a project I have been working on for a while to get more comfortable with procedural modeling and HDA building within Houdini. The "Scandinavian Cottage Generator" is built entirely in Houdini and can be manipulated through an HDA interface. UV's and highpoly version of the cottage can be generated through the click of a button.

The texturing and rendering was done in Karma using Materialx shaders. The project was rendered on the CPU (I unfortunately finished the project right as Karma XPU introduced material blending). The shading part of the cottage was not built into the HDA.

I'm very tired of looking at cottages for the time being, but I hope you like it! :-)

Quick preview of some of the parameters (not all)

Some different variations generated through the HDA

Some different variations generated through the HDA

Built and generated 100% in Houdini. Rendered with Karma using Materialx shaders (Solaris).

Built and generated 100% in Houdini. Rendered with Karma using Materialx shaders (Solaris).

Youtube video of breakdown

Danish cabin :-)

Danish cabin :-)

Houdini Node Network

Example of one of the Material Networks

All Parameters exposed to the user

All Parameters exposed to the user

The entire node network

The entire node network

color/grey/wireframe/uvs

color/grey/wireframe/uvs