CGLounge Studio – Desolate Tropical Islands – Cinematic Environments

What you’ll learn

• Build production-quality terrain using Houdini heightfields and KTT
• Create realistic biome systems with SideFX Labs procedural scattering
• Shade environments with MaterialX for Karma XPU rendering
• Composite cinematic final renders in Nuke

Requirements

• Basic Houdini navigation and understanding (SOPs, parameters, node workflow)
• Houdini Indie or higher (for Karma XPU)
• Nuke (non-commercial or licensed)
• KTT plugin (purchase link provided)
• Vegetation library (Maxtree, SpeedTree, or free alternatives). Not included with the course.
• Megascans assets via Fab (free with Epic Games account). Not included with the course.