Man, this has been a fun project to work on. I'm on a huge The Last of Us vibe at the minute and this has been heavily inspired by the amazing art direction and concept art.

This started off as an innocent experiment to quickly generate destroyed buildings and spiralled into a full modifier that works by converting a single storey, modelled from flat planes, into a complete building with responsive destruction. I learnt so much from doing it that I tackle problems differently from the beginning of the geometry node graph to the end. 

With the exception of the original floor layout, everything is procedural including the shaders. I think there's still room to push it so that the internal layouts can be randomised and more detail added to the building - small touches like air conditioners, cables and wall gubbins would also add some much needed visual interest - but I'll probably avoid that rabbit hole for the time being.

Considering the intensive use of geometry nodes it's surprisingly responsive as long as you don't stack the building too much and, after a suggestion from a discord member, I added the option to paint the destruction in dynamically.

Come talk with me about 3d on Discord or get the project file on Patreon.

Enjoy!

I’ve started a project where I plan to create 1,000 Blender Skill Cards – each one covering a tip, shortcut, or workflow in a simple visual way.
The idea is to make learning and remembering Blender easier.

All of them will be available for free on Gumroad
I’d love to hear your thoughts, do you think this kind of format could be useful?