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 and layout. The video also showcases numerous other improvements:
- Heightfield Terracing SOP 2.0
- Substance Plug-in
- New Group SOPs
- Several new sliding options for poly editing
- Point Weld
- Bevel SOP 3.0 (including collision detection)
- Radial Menu Hotkeys
- Circle from Edges SOP
- Bend SOP 2.0
- Vellum Velocity Blending and resolution independence
- FEM Non-Hookean material model
- Adaptive FLIP pressure projection
- Sparse Pyro Solver
- Custom cutting planes for destruction
- Improved chipping behaviour
- Improved handling of fracture lines
- Guided Destruction
- Solaris: physically-based USD layout
- Solaris: scene import into USD stage
- Solaris: Interactive USD lighting
- Solaris: USD light linking and instancing
- Solaris: Renderman, Arnold and Prorender Hydra delegate
Houdini 18 will be officially launched this Thursday, November 7 at 2pm EST on SideFX’s YouTube Channel.