Tutorial: Introduction to Houdini - Grains
Discover how to simulate sand and other granular materials in Houdini with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed beginner tutorial.
Friday, July 4th, 2025
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Tutorial: Creating a Swamp & Mud Monster in Houdini
Create a creature, environment and FX simulation entirely in Houdini with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly new tutorial.
Saturday, January 4th, 2025
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.8
Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.
Friday, December 20th, 2024
Create detailed environments in Gaea and Houdini
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how Gaea's procedural terrain tools extend VFX workflows.
Monday, December 14th, 2020
SideFX announces v2.0 of Substance in Houdini
New integration plugin will let Houdini process Substance height maps as well as material data.
Tuesday, August 13th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 17.5
Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.2
Terrain rendering times cut by up to 4x, plus new option to use a render as a projected texture on export.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
QuadSpinner releases Gaea in early access
Hotly tipped terrain generation tool mixes powerful procedural features with artist-friendly direct sculpting.
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
Side Effects Software releases Houdini 16
Updated: 'Largest ever' Houdini update adds autorigging, more simulation tools, terrain system. Now shipping.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017