Houdini 18.5 sneak peek
Oct 02, 2020 by CGPress Staff
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SideFX has released a sneak peek video of features we can expect in Houdini 18.5 due out on October 15. Some of the highlights include
- A live bridge between Unity and Houdini vi session sync.
- BSP brush support in Houdini Engine for Unreal, plus PDG, World Composition support and auto-streaming tiles.
- A new services systems for faster task completion.
- Comprehensive performance monitoring.
- A Shotgun asset publishing tool .
- Topo transfer with a conformal mesh solver.
- Attribute from Pieces SOP that provides a new method to create common attribute patterns.
- Chain Sop for quickly instancing geometry along a path.
- Interactive physics brushes for Vellum cloth.
- Several Vellum fabric types ready to use.
- Faster viscous FLIP fluids.
- Interactive Pyro, a GPU accelerated minimal solver for fast prototyping.
- Pyro Burst Source SOP, a new method for sourcing and shaping complex explosions.
- Pyro rt Trail Path SOP, an artist-friendly way to shape complex explosion trails.
- New Pyro tools and shaders plus ready to use sample files.
- Mask By Feature SOP that can create a mask from geometry, shadows, AO and more.
- Scatter and Align SOP, a high-level instancing toolset.
- Solaris Render Snapshots.
- Click to target progressive rendering in Karma.
- Physical lens shaders in Karma.
- KineFX, a new foundation for procedural SOP rigging and retargeting.
Watch the preview on Vimeo.
Source: Jonathan De Blok, Trono
The only boring part of being a Houdini user.. No epic lists of complaints or flamewars in the comments! 🙂
10 years to update the shitty default fire/smoke shader! common SideFX!!! XD
Great update.
I don’t know much about Houdini shaders, but if we could do in other software today what Houdini was doing ten years ago, we would still be happy.
Houdini is to complicated to complain about 😉
And oke as always, they are leading the way.
Nice update Houdini👍
Autodesk when he sees them SideFX Houdini, then the developers – cheaters are developing a major update bifrost? or is it moving slowly?
do not provoke the great beast…they can buy and kill every other company.
Excellent. Congrats
Great to see that SideFX moving into animation territory 🙂 now i can see it as real replacement for MAYA in my toolset. Time for some serious learning of Houdini, no more excuses 🙂
yes houdini is to complex for complaints 😉 …in terms of usability and accessibility of tools/workflow there is lot room for improvements. the viewport is clunky to work with (esp. handles,freezing viewport, etc.).
anyway its another solid update!
That is lack of discoverability are the main Houdini problems.
Yes houdini is complex but when you want automate task with external data (csv, database) and much more the alternativ is a full WTF situation.