Destruction Tool – Houdini HDA

An art-directable destruction toolkit for fast fracturing, constraints setup and sim-ready outputs. Built as a reusable Houdini Digital Asset to standardize studio workflows and speed up iteration.

Role Technical Artist · FX Tools

Tech Houdini · RBD · VEX · Unreal Engine · HDA

Overview

This Destruction Tool is a Houdini Digital Asset designed to quickly take a clean mesh and convert it into a Real-Time simulation-ready destruction setup into UE5. It focuses on speed, control, and consistency: fracture types, chunk variation, constraints.

The main goal was to reduce the repetitive setup work required for RBD destruction, and enable fast iteration for both FX artists and generalists.

Shots

Maya export UI — Houdini HDA execution example.

Unreal material instances — Unreal importing HDA and controlling destruction parameters.

Flask logging dashboard — Anchored destruction simulation in Unreal Engine.

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