Procedural trees

Houdini Engine tool for Unreal Engine 5 that allows environment artists and Layout artists easy to use tools to generate unique trees for their scene. The tool also works in Houdini as a standalone for exporting trees.

The tool is capable of generating trees through most of their life cycle, and any style of tree such as cedar, maple, and oak. Controls are designed to be simple, while remaining flexible, and have options to randomize between ranges based on an artist-defined random seed, or positional based seed.

Check out the demo below!

Demo

Many tree types

The tools can create trees of various types. Cedar, maple, and oak are featured here.

Wind shader

Using height (red), distance from trunk (green), and branch group (blue) I created a vertex shader to animate wind in the trees.

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