Houdini 17.5

SideFX has unveiled Houdini 17.5 - a important release for its 3D animation software application that includes a number of key features including the introduction of PDG | Procedural Dependency Graph. This new technology is available in the upcoming release of Houdini 17.5 as a new Houdini operating context called TOPs (Task Operators) and as a standalone application called PilotPDG™.

PDG is designed to:

  -Describe complex dependencies visually with nodes
  -Transform that dependency description into a set of actionable, schedulable tasks
  -Distribute those tasks with the help of a scheduler and compute them in parallel


In addition there are a wide variety of feature enhancements in Houdini 17.5 like alpha cutouts for heightfields; GPU accelerated volumes in the viewport; a principled shader with visual parity between apps, renderers and viewports; material based destruction with interactive RDB constraints; per-point friction, fibre constraints, and grooming tools in Vellum; sliced and clustered mode for distributed whitewater; distributed narrow-band sims; surface analysis in Measure SOP 2.0; and the ability to select polygons by pattern and face normal.

Check out the Houdini 17.5 Launch Presentation with SideFX's Cristin Barghiel, VP R&D, Scott Keating, Senior Product Designer, Ken Xu, Senior Software Architect - with special guest Bill Polson, Global Head of Pipeline and Workflow, MPC Film.



The planned release date for Houdini 17.5 and PilotPDG is mid March 2019.

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