Houdini Indie News

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

In advance of the Houdini 19.5 release SideFX will be hosting a launch event on Monday July 18th and a Games Workshop on Tuesday July 19th. Videos of the presentations will be available on Wednesday July 20th.


Get the full details here:
https://www.sidefx.com/community/houdini-195-launch-and-game-workshop/

The Houdini 19 production build on Steam has been updated to 19.0.657.

You can view the changelog here.

Note: The Houdini Indie Python 2 build may be delayed by a few hours but will be available soon.


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)

SideFX is proud to announce Houdini Game Jam 2022! Everyone is invited to participate and use Houdini to make games for a chance to win game dev prizes.

Use Houdini with other game dev tools to build a game in one week, from June 17th to 24th, for a chance to win a bunch of prizes!

See the details, rules, prizes, etc. here:
https://www.sidefx.com/community-main-menu/contests-jams/houdini-game-jam-2022/

SideFX will discontinue Python 2 support in Houdini 19.5 and beyond. You can view the news post in SideFX's forum here: https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/83757/

"After countless internal discussions, and discussions with studios and technology partners, the decision has been made to drop Python 2 support in the upcoming Houdini release.

Python 2 reached end-of-life back in January, 2020:
https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/

The next Houdini version will provide only Python 3 builds, in particular Python 3.7 and 3.9 builds as per the VFX Reference Platform.
http://vfxplatform.com/

Note that we will continue to publish Python 2 builds for Houdini 19.0."