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Houdini 20 is released!

SideFX is pleased to announce the release of Houdini 20.0.

Houdini 20 includes hundreds of enhancements and new workflows including Karma XPU, Feathers, Clouds, Material Catalog, Render Stats, Quad Remesh, APEX Character Rigging & Animation tools, and more.

ANIMATION
Explore APEX, a brand-new context designed to deliver an animator-friendly environment that is built on a robust procedural rigging toolset.

CHARACTER FX
Check out the new Feather tools which complement the fur, cloth, muscles, and crowd tools available for CFX artists.

KARMA XPU
Karma XPU is production-ready and works with new Solaris tools such as the material linker, Material X galleries, and shot clones.

ENVIRONMENTS
New Cloud tools combine with terrain and ocean tools to create complete environments for your movies and video games.

VFX
Lots of improvements such as the new Ripple solver and Rigid Body Cone Twist handles enhance the quality-of-life for FX artists.

MESHING
New tools such as Quad Remesh, Topoflow, LIDAR Import, and Point Cloud Surface, allow you to work more efficiently while you manage high-resolution geometry.


Houdini Indie 20.0 is available today (Nov 15th) on Steam. Steam users can update Houdini Indie from their Steam Library to use Houdini Indie 20.0 now.


What's new in Houdini 20.0 ?


Houdini 20 Keynote:

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Last Houdini 19.5 Production Build - 19.5.773

Hidey ho! The Houdini 19.5 Production Build has been updated to 19.5.773.
This will be the last Houdini 19.5 Production Build. (After this, it'll just be Houdini 20 production builds)


Here's a link to the journal for all the changes that went in since the last production build:
https://www.sidefx.com/changelog/?journal=19.5&categories=&body=&version=19.5&build_0=752&build_1=773&show_versions=on&show_compatibility=on&items_per_page= [www.sidefx.com]

Production Build updated to 19.5.752

Hidey ho! The Production Build has been updated to Houdini 19.5.752. Enjoy!

Default win build updated to 19.5.716

Default windows build fixed - updated to 19.5.716 to match the production build.

Production Build updated to Houdini 19.5.682

Production Build updated to Houdini 19.5.682