Houdini is a powerful tool for procedurally modelling lots of different props, but can we go deeper? Can we get more procedural? Triple-A studios like Ubisoft Montreal and Guerilla Games built elaborate Houdini pipelines to make massive open worlds, but can indie developers steal their homework learn something from all of their hard work?

Let’s turn level blockouts into production-ready environment art by applying triple A techniques on an indie budget, and then examine what’s great and not great about that bizarre approach.