Houdini Indie News

The Houdini 19.5 production build on Steam has been updated to 19.5.435.

You can view the changelog here.

You can access different Houdini Indie production builds and daily builds on Steam by following these steps:

-Right click on Houdini Indie in your Steam library
-Select Properties
-Select Betas
-Choose the Houdini daily build or production build you want to use from the betas list.
(Select "None" to use the most current production build)

The Houdini 19.5 production build on Steam has been updated to 19.5.403.

You can view the changelog here.

You can access different Houdini Indie production builds and daily builds on Steam by following these steps:

-Right click on Houdini Indie in your Steam library
-Select Properties
-Select Betas
-Choose the Houdini daily build or production build you want to use from the betas list.
(Select "None" to use the most current production build)

The Houdini 19.5 production build on Steam has been updated to 19.5.368.

You can view the changelog here.

You can access different Houdini Indie production builds and daily builds on Steam by following these steps:

-Right click on Houdini Indie in your Steam library
-Select Properties
-Select Betas
-Choose the Houdini daily build or production build you want to use from the betas list.
(Select "None" to use the most current production build)

There have been some problems with installing SideFX Labs tools in Houdini 19.5 on Steam.
Follow these workaround steps to install the tools.

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Here is a short guide to manually downloading the latest version of SideFXLabs and installing it into your local packages directory.

First, download the latest version of SideFXLabs from the git repo using this link:
https://github.com/sideeffects/SideFXLabs/archive/refs/heads/Development.zip

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TL;DR
1. Extract the zip file into your ~/Documents/houdini19.5/packages folder (create if doesn't exist).
(MacOS) Extract the zip file into your ~/Library/Preferences/houdini/19.5/packages folder (create if doesn't exist).
2. Rename the extracted folder from 'SideFXLabs-Development' to 'SideFXLabs19.5'
3. Move the SideFXLabs19.5/SideFXLabs.json file up to the packages directory
4. Restart Houdini
5. Enjoy!

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NOTE: MacOS users will find their Houdini User Preferences folder located at ~/Library/Preferences/houdini/19.5

Step by step instructions for Windows users:

On Windows, your Houdini User Preferences folder is located at ~/Documents/houdini19.5/ and you can get there quickly with file explorer by entering %USERPROFILE% and pressing enter which will take you there automatically.

Once there you can browse into the 'Documents folder', then find the 'houdini19.5' directoy under that.
This folder holds your local user configuration data for Houdini.
It's going to look something like this 'C:\Users\\Documents\houdini19.5' for Windows users.

Within that 'houdini19.5' directory, create a sub-directory named 'packages' and then extract the downloaded SideFXLabs-Development.zip file into the 'packages' directory.

Under 'packages' you should now have 'SideFXLabs-Development' directory

(IMPORTANT) : rename 'SideFXLabs-Development' to 'SideFXLabs19.5'

Inside the 'SideFXLabs19.5' directory, you will find a 'SideFXLabs.json' file

(IMPORTANT) : move the SideFXLabs.json file into the parent 'packages' folder

Restart Houdini and you should now have access to the latest Labs tools.

SideFX is pleased to announce the release of Houdini 19.5 which is available for download today.

Houdini 19.5 focuses on improving the quality of life for artists throughout the Houdini community. Whether you work on feature films, television, video games or motion graphics, Houdini 19.5 brings you new and enhanced tools to meet your most demanding production requirements.

Houdini 19.5 includes hundreds of improvements and new workflows including a new SOP-based FLIP Solver workflow, the curve state now supports orientation handles, Solaris has a render region and new Layout tools for stacking and placing objects along a line.

Karma CPU now supports nested dialetrics and Karma XPU moves to beta and includes Sub Surface Scattering. A new Dashbox widget can be used for fast global search, and support for partial presets and macros.

Houdini Indie 19.5 is available today (July. 20th) on Steam. Steam users can update Houdini Indie from their Steam Library to use Houdini Indie 19.5 now.

What's new in Houdini 19.5