Houdini Indie News

The Houdini 18.5 production build on Steam has been updated to 18.5.759. This will be the final Houdini Indie 18.5 Production Build on Steam.

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 2nd annual Houdini Game Jam has been announced!

Houdini Game Jam 2021 will take place over the course of one week from December 3rd to December 10th, 2021. The game jam will begin when the theme is revealed via livestream on SideFX’s Twitch channel at 11am PDT on December 3rd. Game jammers will then have one week to build their games and submit them to the ITCH.IO page before the deadline of 5pm PDT on December10th.

The eligible game entries will be played by the judges and prizes will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winning teams.

Get the full details, rules, and join the game jam here.

SideFX is pleased to announce the release of Houdini 19.0.

Houdini 19 reflects our ongoing effort to place artist-centric workflows at the heart of every new feature, and to inject realtime tools and realtime physics into the full fabric of Houdini.

Key enhancements have been made to Solaris for lookdev, layout and lighting, Karma for rendering and KineFX for motion editing and retargeting, along with hundreds of improvements and new workflows.

Houdini Indie 19.0 is available today (Oct. 27st) on Steam. Steam users can update Houdini Indie from their Steam Library to use Houdini Indie 19.0 now.

What's new in Houdini 19.0 ? View new features and more info about Houdini 19 here.

The Houdini 18.5 production build on Steam has been updated to 18.5.696

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 18.5 production build on Steam has been updated to 18.5.672

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)