Houdini 19 sneak peek
SideFX has released the Houdini 19 Sneak Peek, teasing all Houdini Artists with new features and improvements. With the next version of Houdini come significant developments and enhancements to KineFX, Muscles & Tissue, Crowds, Solaris, Karma, Modeling, Pyro FX, FLIP Fluids, Vellum, RBD Destruction, FEM, Grooming, PDG, and more. Here’s a list of some of Houdini 19’s upcoming features and improvements: Solaris for Layout and Environments Unique brush-based framework for large-scale set dressing. HDA-driven brush architecture with unlimited customizability. Full access to verbified/compilable SOP networks. PDG-assisted creation of layout asset gallery. USD asset browser. Solaris for Lighting and Rendering Comprehensive Houdini scene importer. Better motion blur generation. Option to pause viewer updates. Faster GL rendering of transformable instances. Viewport support for camera exposure attribute. Updated Karma LOP for faster render setup. USD 21.08. Karma Beta tag removed to ...