Unreal Houdini Engine Prototaxites Digital Asset HDA and HIP files.

A first approach to scientific visualization using Unreal Houdini Engine to recreate a game ready functional Prototaxites example.

Prototaxites were a species of fungi that towered the world 400 millions years ago, you can learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G64DagHuOg This model is simple enough to do an exercise and a full game ready featured Digital Asset, including LOD's, LOD's materials, different types of collisions and parameters to tweak.

A first step towards more complex projects, so I wanted to pin down the basics of a game ready fully tweakable asset to move onto such projects. I learned a lot and the project is free to explore. I will try to update this any time I fix some issues or any that I'm made aware of in the future.

You can see a video showing the main features here https://vimeo.com/594300794 and Unreal Engine videos here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oAgNxJ and here:

Known issues:

- LOD's material only work with material override.

- Collision Debug doesn't show LOD's or Profile debug.

- Inside Unreal there is no way (that I know of) to bake the relevant settings instead of the debug modes when they are activated.

License:

- The main goals of this package are both learning and education. Feel free to use the content of this package to learn, explore, reference and teach others if you find the content good enough for such purposes.

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