Material-based destruction tools make it easier to set up and art direct destruction shots by providing tools for pre-fracturing materials such as concrete, glass and wood while automatically building constraint networks that tie the whole system together. The White Water solver has been rewritten to achieve a more organic, foamy, look with realistic cellular patterns and repellant forces and a more accurate relationship to the source FLIP sim. The Vellum solver is GPU-accelerated and very easy to set up and iterate. New Vellum multi-solver brings fast cloth to Houdini along with other integrated effects such as hair, soft bodies and grains. Houdini 18 will be officially launched this Thursday, November 7 at 2pm EST on SideFX’s YouTube Channel.Houdini 18 includes a wealth of new features, including a GPU-accelerated multisolver for cloth, hair, soft bodies and grains, a new white water solver, a material-based destruction framework, facial autorigs, fullbody IK, enhanced animation and modeling workflows, UV autoseaming, GLTF I/O, gamedev tools and much more. Solaris: Renderman, Arnold and Prorender Hydra delegate.

Solaris: USD light linking and instancing.Vellum Velocity Blending and resolution independence.Bevel SOP 3.0 (including collision detection).Several new sliding options for poly editing.The video also features many other improvements including: Side FX has released a sneak peek video for Houdini 18. Major features include a Sparse Pyro Solver Solaris and the new USD-based context for lookdev, layout.

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