Building Worlds with Houdini | Benoit Martinez | Houdini HIVE Paris

Working on the Ghost Recon franchise, Benoit and his team developed around Houdini an innovative and dedicated toolchain to shape the world and produce a wide variety of environments. This lecture will describe the techniques and technology behind this work and how they gave the artists the right tools to control large scale landscapes and small details. He’ll explain the procedural approach they adopted to create terrain, roads, forests, rivers and settlements, and how all those tools are connected to each other. He'll provide an overview of the tools and also the dedicated Houdini pipeline developed over years to create AAA game environments at Ubisoft Paris.
Benoit Martinez started in the video game industry in 1999, since then he's been lead artist, art director and technical director. In 2011 he joined Ubisoft Paris and he introduced Houdini in production. Since then he worked on Ghost Recon : Wildlands (2017) and on the newly announced Ghost Recon : Breakpoint. Benoit is in charge of the environment team and the procedural team, working on both content and tools to create rich and detailed open worlds.

[@tertiumorganum5665]

perfect French! :) seriously, even youtube consider it French. but topic is so interesting that I'd understand it even in French

[@dantheman1337]

Houdini just won the prize for consecutive video uploads!

[@rubenserrano3043]

So they made a huge world with just procedural work setting parameters. At some point we could even design our real world roads taking in consideration the needs and just writing them down to get a procedural one, that's awesome.

[@SoyalicSinan]

Those numbers blew my mind.

[@sandscraper]

Close captions literally thinks that this man is speaking french

[@ajsky1066]

"I would like to have a Damburger"

[@junglingmitapfel2902]

It's not Damburger, it's Hamburger!

[@ajsky1066]

@@junglingmitapfel2902 Dam-beurgeur??

[@H.Jahanshahi]

This seems very interesting. Could you please add a English subtitle for this one? RUclips's closed captions cannot translate it well.

[@joantonio6331]

I speak French (grew up in France) and can not understand when french people speak English....

[@sammy7187]

@@joantonio6331 Toujours + dans l'abus

[@ajsky1066]

Now I understand why Pink Panther couldn't say "Hamburger"

[@TronLee]

怎么办。。这个口音导致youtube认为是法语了，没有字幕了

[@realmoonknight]

pakfomance is going down

[@BeatTorrent5]

Frérot, t'aurais pu faire un petit effort pour l'accent 😂
Excellent presentation tough 👍

[@jiazq]

french or english ? lol

[@markosabljak9864]

inspector clouseau

[@joantonio6331]

Quand un français parle anglais c'est chaud...

[@S....]

Ffs, he is not even trying to speak clearly.. why even pretend to speak english? He could have done it all in french.

[@duomaxwell8803]

Next time please choose a better speaker, OR putting subtitle for this vid.
Seriously, his French accent is too strong, my brain kept trying to understand him but it failed miserably, it killed my mood to watch the video.
DISLIKED!

[@3DisFuntastic]

He is the person who did the bulk of the work on this project. Sorry he is not a native english speaker. I guess the content of what he brings is not that important?

[@edh615]

@@3DisFuntastic His accent is a bit too strong but at least is fluent, which is more important!

[@xpez9694]

Welcome to the Human Race! Get over it. Which type of english would you like? Southern accent?, Brooklyn? Midwestern? British? LOL. Negative Nellies can skip the video.

[@vincentthomas8492]

Now you coudl understand why some of us have also issue when American or english ALSO don't do any effort not non native speaking audience...

[@DavidB-rx3km]

I'm English speaker and I can understand him perfectly?