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An Intro to Building Terrain Shaders for Houdini Mantra

By May 6, 2021No Comments

Rohan Dalvi shows how to create terrain shading in Mantra.

A new tutorial from Houdini trainer Rohan Dalvi covers how you can directly shade terrains in Side FX Houdini Mantra using the height field data itself. 

The tutorial shows how to take the height field and convert that to polygons and use that information to generate masks at a shader level to control how various terrain look.

About Rohan Dalvi.

Rohan Dalvi is a veteran 3D Artist and Trainer covering Side FX Houdini techniques and concepts. 

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3D, VFX, design, and typography. Twenty year veteran instructor in all things computer graphics.