Introduction of free Project Dryad tools for Houdini

In 2024, SideFX has released a new toolset for generating large natural environments called Project Dryad for Houdini. This tool is completely free on SideFX Labs. In this article, let’s explore it deeper.

Project Dryad is a semi-automated system that helps you generate natural environments driven by real-world physical properties. It includes both terrain and biomes – geographic regions with similar geography, climate and vegatation. You can use Project Dryad to populate environments procedurally with your own assets.

The output can be art directed by setting up the boundaries between biomes, and by adjusting the rules and parameters used to populate them.

The tool can allow you to generate environments that reflect how factors like soil quality, altitude and rainfall affect where different species of plants grow in the real world.

This release helps you access the first three tools created for this system: Biome Initialize, Biome Curve Setup, and Biome Profile. They are just a starting point for a bigger system. You can use them, mix and match, and customize, process input terrain and biome regions in a variety of ways to be able to adapt to different workflows and creative solutions.

The Project Dryad tools are available via the free SideFX Labs toolset for Houdini 20.

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