Houdini Apprentice 12.1 Build 033

Houdini Apprentice is a powerful tool designed for VFX artists. With Houdini Apprentice, you will experience game-changing improvements in speed and memory making it easier to achieve blockbuster results.

Houdini Apprentice was built on a powerful new geometry engine and includes targeted optimizations to dynamics and rendering and a reworked OpenGL 3 viewport.

Moreover, Houdini Apprentice provides a Bullet solver integration, Pyro FX 2, faster more accurate FLIP fluids, production-ready cloth, an Alembic exporter and much more.

Here are some key features of "Houdini Apprentice":

Performance:
· Houdini 12 has been re-architected to be faster and more memory efficient. From a new geometry engine, to targeted optimizations to dynamics and rendering, to viewport enhancements, artists will be able to accomplish more and iterate faster with Houdini 12.

Pyro FX 2:
· With Pyro FX 2, Fire and Smoke simulations look more realistic and are faster and easier to set up. The speed gains in Houdini 12 are significant allowing for more iterations. The ability to simulate using the GPU takes things to a whole new level and advances in volume rendering create an impressive final look.

FLIP Fluids:
· FLIP Fluids have been enhanced to achieve 10x faster performance, to generate 10x more data and to create more stable behavior. New variable viscosity controls lets you simulate liquids that melt or harden. Overall, FLIP fluids let you create bigger effect faster than ever before

Bullet:
· The Bullet solver has become an industry standard which is now the default RBD solver in Houdini. Offering super-fast rigid body sims, Bullet is integrated into the Houdini 12 dynamics context and works with dynamic fracturing and interacts well with fluids.

Cloth:
· The cloth solver in Houdini 12 is production-ready and capable of generating fast reliable clothing sims. Using a mathematically accurate sim model, the new solver handles difficult cases and provides point level control over all aspects of the sim. Character FX artists will want to take a look at this amazing new solver.

Rendering:
· Houdini’s Mantra renderer, recently recognized with a Scientific and Technical Achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, now brings physically-based rendering to volumes such as smoke and fire. Mantra also includes a 300 times speed improvement when instancing to points.

Limitations:

· Watermark on the resulting files.
· Non-commercial file format.
· Maximum render resolution of 720x576.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Designed to make artists more productive while equipping studios with the most powerful tools in the industry, Houdini 10 is destined to become a must-have release for 3D artists everywhere.
· With Houdini 10 VFX artists can create high quality smoke and fire with the new Pyro FX tools. Utilizing cutting edge up-resing technology, Pyro FX makes it possible to create a low resolution simulation in planning out a shot, then increase the resolution on subsequent passes to add higher level of details and refinement. Pyro FX comes with several pre-made Pyro FX such as Billowy smoke and Fireball to give artists a head start when setting up a simulation.
· Many more features.