Destruction Tools and Techniques Used For Borderlands 3 | Caitlyn Trout | HOUDINI HIVE GAMEDEV
This session will present an overview of the destruction techniques used for creating game-ready assets. It will cover problems that were experienced during production and what subnetworks and tools were created to solve them. These problems range from generating simple consistent debris, to translating complicated rigid body simulation into shader data, accelerated by the gpu. This session is intended for tech and visual effects artists of all levels who are interested in destruction simulation.
Caitlyn Trout is a technical artist at Gearbox Software. She discovered technical art while in school at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy and afterwards interned at EA Tiburon. She’s been at Gearbox for the last 6 years contributing to multiple AAA titles including Borderlands: the Presequel, Battleborn and Borderlands 3. Her focus in the past has been coding art pipeline tools for multiple software packages but has shifted into pioneering new techniques on the research and development tech art team.
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