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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Jul 23

Found via Rune: bsky.app/profile/rune...

Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · Jul 20

I learned of a cool erosion noise function from 2023 (link in reply) and wondered how it would feel in my game. First impressions:

1) It's fast for erosion, but quite slow for a noise function.
2) It looks nice from afar but doesn't make environments more satisfying to explore.

#GameDev #ProcGen

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Jul 23

Of course had to port it for Houdini dailyhip.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/e...

Erosion Filter

I ran into a nice terrain noise post from Rune, showcasing an analytical noise that behaves a lot like erosion, but without any simulation! The original seems to be from clayjohn, with improvements…

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Jul 23

Found a cool noise that behaves like erosion, but without any simulation! www.shadertoy.com/view/WXcSRH

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Jul 23

Super cool! I just had to port it to Houdini as well :)
dailyhip.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/e...

Erosion Filter

I ran into a nice terrain noise post from Rune, showcasing an analytical noise that behaves a lot like erosion, but without any simulation! The original seems to be from clayjohn, with improvements…

dailyhip.wordpress.com

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · May 5

Looks like a Vorlon

Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Apr 15

Next week I'll be giving a talk at EPC on how we create the world of @playpaxdei.bsky.social
Hope to see you there, tickets still available!
www.everythingprocedural.com#conference

Home - Everything Procedural Conference

EVERYTHING PROCEDURAL EPC2025 22-25 April 2025 CONFERENCE ON PROCEDURAL GENERATION FOR GAMES tickets Days Hours Minutes Seconds meet and share knowledge From Tuesday April 22 to Friday April 25 2025 B...

www.everythingprocedural.com

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Mar 30

Oh I can still hear the music!
Ti-di-dy ti-di-dy di-di-dy di-di-dy
Tyyyy-diddii-dyddyy-diddii-dydydy diddii-dyddyy-diddii-dydydy
Diddii dyddyy dyy

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Mar 28

Hoth PC small group

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Mar 25

Download from dailyhip.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/v...

Vibe Wrangles

Trying to think of how to combine LLMs with Houdini in more or less useful ways.Here are LLM-enabled variants for Attribute Wrangle SOP and Python SOP.The only difference is a string input where yo…

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Mar 25

It does not always result in working code, but at least you can quickly get something to improve on.
This uses ChatGPT 4o, and there is a hidden parameter where you should put your OpenAI API key.
(I put in a default key with 20€, so with some luck you can test it without one:)

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Mar 25

Vibe Wrangles

Thinking of how to combine LLMs with
@sidefx.bsky.social #Houdini

Here's LLM-enabled variants for Attribute Wrangle SOP and Python SOP.
The difference is a string input where you can describe what you want the Wrangle to do, and it will initialize the code field

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Mar 17

github.com/eetumartola/...

GitHub - eetumartola/houdini-mcp: Houdini MCP

Houdini MCP. Contribute to eetumartola/houdini-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Mar 17

This MCP stuff is cool so I had to make a Houdini-MCP as well. Mostly a conversion of
siddharth ahuja's Blender-MCP, but with the addition of Claude being able to get an OpenGL render - to enable it to see what it's doing. Not useful for real, but a fun gimmick and maybe a sign of things to come.

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Feb 23

I first tried with a local Deepseek-r1:32b, but kept getting errors with 85% of even the simplest wishes. GPT-4o makes valid code maybe a bit over 50% of the time. With a niche API like HOM these model just keep hallucinating. Would need to finetune with Houdini documentation and examples?

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Feb 23

Don't worry, our jobs are safe, this can't really do anything of actual use.

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Feb 23

A bit of LLM fun in @sidefx.bsky.social Houdini, less than one cent a wish! ;)

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Nov 24

I have a Houdini List
bsky.app/profile/did:...
and a Starter Pack:
bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Nov 21

added!

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Eetu Martola @eetumartola.bsky.social · Nov 21

As far as I know we are first to integrate Discord into our game. Our in-game chats are now actually Discord chats, and you can message between Discord clients and the game.
The initial implementation is quite barebones, but this opens up a lot of possibilities! playpaxdei.com/en-us/news/g...