Thilo Seifert explained how he simulated a landscape with a multi-channel river in Houdini and UE4.

'Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands' is an open world shooter developed by Ubisoft Paris. It is the biggest action-adventure open world games published by Ubisoft, with the game world including a wide variety of environments such as mountains, forests, deserts and salt pans. A dedicated tool chain and rendering system was designed for this purpose and is now shared among several other projects, this lecture will describe some of the most important technologies behind this work.

How do you create 100 square km of wilderness with a terrain changing every day? One of the challenges with a modern open world is its sheer size. Not every square meter of the world will receive the attention of a level artist or a level designer. Yet while filling empty space is easy, creating natural-looking environments is a bigger challenge.

Ubisoft's solution on 'Far Cry 5' was to develop a set of procedural tools to generate biomes, texture the terrain, setup freshwater networks, generate cliff rocks and more. Procedural technical artist Étienne Carrier walks you through how they tacked this challenge...