Firefly is coming to Omniverse
Check out the Summer 2023 updates to Nvidia's online design platform, plus plans to integrate Adobe's generative AI toolset.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
HDA
Free tool: Stable Houdini puts Stable Diffusion in Houdini
Use generative AI inside Houdini to create matte paintings or concept art based on simple 3D scenes.
Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
Get Sharan Vaswani's free Populate Toolset for Houdini
ReDefine FX supervisor's free tool helps users art direct instances of simulation caches like explosions.
Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
Free tool: Hextile for Houdini and Unreal Engine
Mohsen Tabasi's award-winning free tool minimises visible repeats by tiling textures using a hex grid.
Monday, February 13th, 2023
Download free Houdini tools from Project Titan
Updated: get five new free tools from SideFX's Houdini-to-UE5 tech demo, plus its Houdini Engine for UE5 plugin.
Sunday, June 5th, 2022
Alexey Vanzhula releases Soft Boolean for Houdini
Real-time Boolean modelling toolkit can also be used inside apps that support Houdini Engine, like Maya.
Friday, September 3rd, 2021
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.27
Check out the free game engine's new Houdini-integrated Nvidia Blast destruction physics system and improved cloth simulation.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Check out neat new procedural tree toolset GrowInfinite
Set of 37 HDAs generates detailed tree growth animations in Houdini or Houdini Engine-compatible apps and game engines.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2020
Tighe Rzankowski releases Feather Tools For Houdini
Promising new feather-generation and animation toolkit has been used in Alt.VFX's commercial work.
Friday, June 28th, 2019
Alexey Vanzhula ships Direct Modeling HDA for Houdini
Neat hard surface modeling toolkit adds MeshFusion-style real-time Booleans, new insert mesh system.
Monday, January 8th, 2018
Download SideFX's free Physics Painter tool for Houdini
Neat free tool lets you scatter objects across a terrain and have them settle naturally under the influence of gravity.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2017
Download SideFX's free Skinning Converter for Houdini
Neat free tool turns the output of sims to lightweight bone-based animations to use in game engines.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017