Procedural Sword Generator - Honours Project
A procedural generation tool made in Houdini, for the creation of 3D sword assets, working from base primitives up to fully UV unwrapped and textured models.
Modelling demo video: https://youtu.be/4lYf8gBQ-rY
A full writeup of this project can be found here: https://shorturl.at/dN2FI
Final assets created using the tool, rendered in Houdini.
The blade is built from a central line asset which is then transformed to form the four edges.
The tool supports three different guard types - straight, curved and basket - each with its own parameters.
An optional groove along the centre of the blade is made by performing a subtractive boolean operation.
Bending occurs from the base of the blade, but automatically scales to the current length.
Hand-modelled interchangeable assets for the hilt.
Generating gradient textures and wear and tear, scaling automatically to the blade length.
The node network, separated into folders for easy readability.