2023年10月19日，SideFX 公布了 3D 软件最新更新「Houdini 20」的抢先预览影像。
Houdini 20 Sneak Peek
这是基于 Houdini 20 搭载的新工具以及新功能的一部分制作的预览。下周将举办发布演示会，将更详细地说明 Houdini 下一版本中新追加或改进的工具以及变更点。发布演示会的录制视频预计将在活动后1周内公开。敬请观看!
- Room Map VOP
- Karma Fur Shader with medulla support
- Karma XPU Fog Box
- Thin Walled Transmission for MtlX Standard Surface
- Hex Tiling
- Larma XPU Nested Dielectrics, Absorption, Disprersion, Cryptomatte
- Karma Physical Sky, S-Coordinates on Curves
- Render Statistics
- Material Linker, Material Catalog, AMD MtlX Library
- Distributed multi-frame and multi-shot rendering
- Projectile Motion
- Sticky Collisions
- New Animation environment: Selection Sets
- Video reference in viewport
- Animating with Ragdolls
- Cloud tools: Skybox
- Art-directable hero clouds
- Cloud shapes from polygons
- Bubble generator
- OpenCL Ripple Solver
- Vellum Wind Shadow
- Franken Muscles
- Feather System
- Feather Procedural for all Hydra delegates
- Redesigned Ocean Procedural with suppport for all Hydra delegates
- SOP Whitewater Solver
- FLIP Volume Combine
- Whitewater post-process
- Density-driven gravity for Pyro Solver
- OpenCL Snippets
- Quad Remesh
- RBD Core Twist Constraints
- Car rig driven by RBD Solver
- Houdini Engine for Unreal: Tool Shelf
- Houdini Engine for Unreal: World Partitions and Landscapes
- ML terrain generation
原本就给人一种无论什么都能做的软件印象，不过也能感觉到其标准功能同样变得非常强大。
也附上上周公开的学生作品 reel。
『Houdini 20』预计于2023年11月发布。也请务必确认发布活动等详细信息。
链接
www.sidefx.com
https://www.sidefx.com/community/houdini-20-sneak-peek/
www.sidefx.com
https://www.sidefx.com/ja/community/houdini-20-sneak-peek/
Houdini的许可证与价格
许可证种类与功能比较：比较 | SideFX
详细价格信息请见这里：Houdini 商店 | SideFX
※也有用于学习的免费许可证「Houdini Apprentice」。
总之，这是一款能做的事情多到难以想象的程序化3D软件！请务必看看。
链接
Houdini | 3D Procedural Software for Film, TV & Gamedev | SideFX