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List of Houdini plugins, assets, tools, tutorials. Focused mostly free and open source resources.
Plugins
- Houdini Engine - Houdini Engine brings a procedural node-based approach to your favorite app. Build networks that define a recipe that can be applied over and over, then wrap them up to create custom smart assets. Share these assets with colleagues who can load them directly into Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Unity, Unreal Engine.
- Houdini Engine for Blender - Branch of Blender featuring a Houdini Engine based modifier.
- Houdini Music Toolset - makes use of Houdini's powerful geometry and simulation processing in a set of new tools and workflows specifically designed for music.
Tools
- MOPs - Motion OPerators for Houdini, a motion graphics toolkit.
- Simple Tree Tools - A complete set of fully procedural tree modeling tools for Houdini.
- Path Solver, OctaTree - is a Houdini Digital Asset solving points/objects along any path without them intersecting each other. OctaTree is an addition to create animated systems of objects similar to quadtree, but in 3d space.
- VEX Syntax for VSCode - Houdini VEX Support for VSCode. [repo]
- Atoms Crowd - is a standalone crowd framework designed to handle large amount of animation data.
Projects
- Procedural Rigged Book Demo - is a simple procedural book for Hodini.
- Planet Earth - Houdini Planet Earth scene and tex files.
- lightning https://gumroad.com/l/ofsD
- ice https://gumroad.com/l/icetool
- https://www.orbolt.com/search/?q=tags:effect Orbolt, is aplace where you find some free resources, which includes free digital assets or effects
Render Engines
Useful
- Houdini Blueprints - Browse, collect, share Houdini snippets online.
- kristianjungk/Houdini Tips
- Houdini Hotkey Sheet - All shortcuts for Houdini PDF File, in total 53 pages, optimized for printing.
Learn
- https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/houdini-foundations-book/
- cgwiki/Houdini
- SideFX/learn
- Entagma.com
- Rebelway.net (p)
- CGCircuit (p)
- Applied Houdini (p)
- SideFX Digital Learning Material - List of Tutorials.
- jtomori/VEX Tutorial - A collection of code snippets and examples showing syntax and capabilities of VEX language inside SideFX Houdini.
- Houdini pipeline and learning database
- Luiz' Big List of Games Tutorials
Community/Social
- SideFX Forum - Houdini visual effects forum and community.
- Odforce Forum - Houdini visual effects forum and community.
- Reddit: /r/Houdini, /r/vfx, /r/proceduralgeneration
- Discord: Houdini Academy & Resources, Think Procedural
- FB Group: Houdini Artists, Houdini Hangouts, Houdini for Game Dev
Youtube
- Houdini
- Entagma
- Simon Houdini
- Nine Between
- Adrien Lambert
- AxisFX
- David Ferreira
- Tim van Helsdingen
- Indie-Pixel
- Kate
- MIX Training
- David Kahl VFX
- CG Record
- pixeltrain
- timj design
Vimeo
- SideFX Houdini
- Peter Quint
- Tyler Bay
- Rohan Dalvi
- Tim van Helsdingen
- Akil Tasi
- Resilient Picture Company
- Vimeo Houdini Tutorials (Channel)
Blogs
- Simon Verstraete
- Xuan Prada
- Sergen Eren
- Adrien Lambert
- Rebelway/blog
- FlexmMonkey
- Procedural-Generation.tumblr.com
Events/Challanges
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- Awesome Blender - A curated list of awesome Blender addons, tools, tutorials; and 3D resources for everyone.
- VFX Good Night Reading - Curated collection of good reading about VFX and CG.
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