#Sidefx houdini 16 skin#
The new Biharmonic skin capturing will save riggers valuable time while the FEM-based muscles produces high-realism results. Houdini’s animation and rigging tools have been improving over the last few releases – and with the Auto-rigging, Muscle and Flesh architecture and Invisible rigs in Houdini 16, a complete character workflow is now in place. Game artists can leverage an improved texture baking workflow. Mantra has been enhanced with improved BSDFs for creating Sub-Surface Scattering, Dielectrics, Absorption and more. Houdini 16 includes a new shader building workflow that allows for layer mixing and quick access to procedural texturing tools.
More and more, artists are turning to Houdini’s Mantra to render shots. The terrain can then collide with Fluid simulations, Crowd agents, Particles, RBD/destruction and Pyro FX – without converting the heightfields into geometry. The operations are very similar to image compositing, so terrain artists will find the Houdini workflow familiar. Houdini 16’s terrain system lets you layer and edit terrain easily with tools such as procedural noise, or paint or mask out areas directly. These tools make it easier to create good surface topology for use in Film, TV, Games and VR, and can be used interactively in the viewport or procedurally in the network editor.įull Artistic Control using Volume Slices and Height Fields The modeling toolset in Houdini continues to grow – with new Boolean tools, Smooth and PolyFill. New context-sensitive and fully customizable radial menus provide quick access to common tools, making Houdini more accessible for artists.Īrtist-Friendly Tools and Procedural Techniques Below are highlights of what Houdini 16 brings to the table:įor a fast and fluid experience, the new network editor has been redesigned from scratch to include custom node shapes, alignment and layout tools, ‘dot’ nodes and much more. This release includes new workflows for terrain building, shading, character rigging and visual effects creation, as well as a new network editor and radial viewport menus. Quixel and related names and images are the property of Epic Games, Inc.Toronto-based firm SideFX has announced the availability of Houdini 16, the latest version of its procedural 3D animation and video effects software. It was important to get the right kind of erosion for the mountain slope that had a structure built into it. This ensured that the textures matched the surrounding objects in the shot and the Iceland-inspired terrains in the rest of the sequence.īelow you can see some of the initial experiments from the prototype stage. We used the Synth node to create terrain textures using Megascans's scanned textures. In fact, over one weekend, we were able to create a terrain that matched their exact specs. Gaea was quite young back then, but our in-house team knew we could deliver what was required. Production was already rushing to completion on the rest of the sequence, so achieving that shot was urgent. They were looking for specific shapes that their existing toolset could not create. When Quixel was making Rebirth to showcase Megascans assets in Unreal Engine, they needed an additional shot to show the terrain from above.
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