Houdini 20.5 Keynote

[@jebinrohit7478]

This is how a subscription service should be, amazing updates!

[@fabricio_chamon]

Amazing release guys, good job! The great thing about Copernicus is that now it is possible to create 100% procedural assets in Houdini, including textures. That was the final piece we needed for such level of proceduralism.

[@olexp9017]

I'm calling the COPs!

[@gcharb2d]

[@litbrush2422]

[@xl000]

Please, do it, KAREN

[@countchoculitis1528]

I see what you did there...

[@chr1st0pher]

buckle upppp !

[@Kumodot]

Reinventing the +0.5 Industry Standards and expectations. I Feel sorry for the other devs. 🤣

[@iam_niam]

Especially Maya, or Max... Many years no massive upgrades.

[@SeregaZinin]

@@iam_niam , Bifrost is updated every month.

[@SeregaZinin]

@@iam_niam , Bifrost update every month.

[@gcharb2d]

H20.5 has seen more development in 8 months than Blender in the last 5 years, these guys are incredible!

[@iam_niam]

@@gcharb2d blender is free and open source. And it is not financed like a Houdini. Incorrect comparison. But if change Blender to Maya or Max it is will be a true and correct comparison.

[@audiodrocher]

Houdini is a sofware engineering as an artform. Just beautiful. Thank you SideFX 😊

[@OlafFinkbeiner]

I can't believe it... Sooo cool so many new things to learn and use

[@Geometrynode]

This is literally the coolest thing and most exciting thing. I am speechless

[@YanivGorali]

You killed substance! ❤

[@billjeason6635]

Not yet🤨

[@Jieisho]

There's instaMAT for that. Much more powerful and has many more things to offer.

[@PalmwineStudio]

fingers crossed for mid year christmas 🎉

[@kwesikwaa]

the character animation tools are insane. realtime wrinkles too? APEX is finally here to kill. i love that it is physics based as well. MPM + vellum + rbd seem like a very psychopathic combination, moving forward. and COPS upgrade + OFX in COPS? man we are blessed

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

What a great speaker Cristin Barghiel is! I love listening to him.

[@rahulgirish4650]

Have it open now, can we just take a moment to appreciate how incredible useful the Node Info panel has become.

[@studionotwar]

So so hyped for almost everything in this release. it's really impressive.

[@PalmwineStudio]

the animation context from H20 and these new updates, make Houdini the reasonable place to do all character animation. 🎉 very intuitive. job well done. 🙇🏾‍♂️

[@MrSunamo]

So many great features are coming, I'm glad to have made the decision to start learning Houdini about half a year ago. Hopefully Copernicus will also work with other render engines like Redshift and Octane, etc.

[@lselectric7]

I remember in the early 2000s doing an entire vfx shot from start to finish in Houdini using cops. The studio I was at used cops as the main comp package. Always wondered why SideFX didn’t continue to dev cops earlier and let the foundry take over. So much easier to work in one software. Glad they’re back on track.

[@TobiasBertrand]

Copernicus comes just at the right time to kick Adobe, with its ToS, to the lunchbox!

[@xl000]

Adobe isn't sleeping either. I don't know if they have keynotes,

[@demianpelos]

every update of houdini comes WITH so so much!! stuff is incredible

[@DerekElliott]

insane stuff nice work

[@lucasgarcezxyz]

Houdini tutorials soon? 👀

[@lega-xyz]

Great presentation! The work that was accomplished since version 20 release is incredible! Thank you SideFX!

[@Krilium]

Did Substance Designer just go obsolete?

[@OscarChabrand]

Really interested to see the viewport performance of those tools. Especially the viewport texture painting and sculpting tools. So many possibilities and so many questions!

[@MortenKvale]

Wow.. Really great stuff, cant wait to learn all this!!! You guys are amzing!

[@emimeemio]

This is what I wanted from summer vacation!

[@jamaljamalwaziat1002]

Lets go... Please sidefx slow abit down 🙂 is too much guys Keep up the good work

[@paitanmedia]

Really great news. Plan to spend the next few months playing with the animation tools and ML🥰

[@DavidLandFX]

Just woooow, this is amazing, can't wait to start to play with this stuff!!! Very nice presentation.

[@HristoVelev]

Just insane. Especially the cops. Would love to hear more about Vulkan but there's only so much time :)

[@kennethcheung1826]

Meanwhile, 3dsmax upgrades the bevel modifier in the +0.5 update

[@souptemba3092]

incredible job on the mpm solver i've been really missing it

[@fastlearner292]

Okay, what the hell was that audio with the chicken vs lucha animation 😂

[@MrJemabaris]

questions... (maybe they had to filter some copy righted song out?)

[@OdStudios-TheRealOdStudios]

@@MrJemabaris Hi everyone, Od Studios here... This was apparently a post processing issue when the clip was uploaded to KZbin. It was awesome live. Maybe in the near future, we'll have the clip up on it's own for all to enjoy. But for now, enjoy the visuals! We hope to show you more of the of the Luchador and Chicken in the near future!

[@3D_GO]

I need to have a lie down! how do ye guys do it. Every god damn time.

[@sanescobar7489]

EXCELENT! copernicus ROX Whooohooo!

[@neilrognvaldrscholes]

Amazing release !

[@GeorgeJimenez-cl8jm]

Pretty awesome love finally going towards Cops

[@phinnaeusoconnor]

Amazing! Could of done with some of these tools on our last couple projects! Cant wait for release...

[@ilionys]

Amazing , Congrat to SideFX team ✌️

[@morphtek]

1:19:40 omg i needed this so much god damn it , sick and tired of tying all my stuff to a null node

[@AndyHopper-w1f]

Wow you guys ROCK!

[@syntheticperson]

Very cool! Can't wait to use some of the new features!

[@pyrochlore]

You are the best. Can’t wait to use it.

[@VFX4DESIGN]

Awsome release. Thanks for all this amazing stuff .

[@vaskerstudio9429]

man adobe getting hit hard this month ...welp time to cancel my substance

[@pragmaticvfx]

SESI added a lot of firepower to the latest version of Houdini, and that's not even the full version! 🤗

[@Terry_Williams]

So excited for this release

[@fizzypopvfx]

I am overwhelmed :D

[@djilaliachour1578]

Incredible job, really amazing stuff !

[@Ignash]

Love me some APEX I am slowly shifting to animating everything with APEX and these updates will be appreciated.

[@ssekastewart-sf3xe]

Respect to the Side FX team

[@daniK3102]

mindblowing SIDEFX

[@B_dav]

outstanding, as always

[@value_exe]

woah awesome stuff! Super exciting.

[@kir11]

Great big-big work done! As always!

[@Iqroh]

This is amazing!

[@meroshango9603]

For the rigging, I’m happy to see It Is Looking more like Maya, i think you should also change the look of those lines bones

[@DimaShishkov]

Excited!

[@rigmarole]

Love SideFX! Is there a release that won't blow us away?

[@duncanbuckley7020]

breaks my mind thinking of all the new things to try out... I need a second lifetime to be able to learn all this haha

[@workflowinmind]

I'm speechless

[@ezpepz]

Really curious about Copernicus!

[@gcharb2d]

Looks like an update to COPS, really thrilled to see the Houdini compositing tools get some love!

[@bennyweimer2345]

the wrinkle solver is so smart

[@antoniopepe]

if it isnt prefactured, how do you bind the simmed mpm grain to the original geo, and then reap apart ? 🙌🙌😍😍

[@szymonsniegocki528]

It does like you are "fracturing" but per material, not per piece

[@antoniopepe]

@szymonsniegocki528 I need to try it because I try to compare it with the current workflow and I don't understand how it fits and changes between maybe larger clusters up to grain particles. houdini magic

[@oscarchabrand6061]

Will Copernicus be included as part of Houdini Core ? or only in full Houdini FX?

[@gcharb2d]

It should be in all version, from Apprentice to FX, I have an Indie license here, and I get all the FX stuff!

[@muviing5427]

I checked on the homepage and saw that version 20.5 has been uploaded. By the way, when will the Steam Indie version be updated?

[@carlherner9458]

just mindblowing stuff

[@nicolaastanghe475]

Btw since everyone here is probably listening. I was wondering if you could somehow automatically adjust your Texel density ov UV`s to where details get smaller when you are sculpting behind the scenes to reduce memory footprint when sculpting. And then every so much time store some of the height field as deformed geometry on the mesh to save memory. But what do I know, you’re probably already doing awesome things.

[@simo299]

Seriously Gobsmacking stuff - well done @sidefx just goes to show how a subscription model can and should really work. I'm looking at you @adobe

[@JackHiddeG]

Let’s goooooo🎉🎉

[@ShrikeGFX]

could we get some timestamps? Please do the same visual overhaul for the entire editor than for the info panel, that looks worlds better

[@reaktorleak89]

I won't miss Adobe...

[@manvredo]

There is no company in the world like Houdini that releases such advanced tools. It seems there is a stagnation among other companies - until AI takes over everything ;)

[@N1KYNIKY]

THIS. IS. TOP.

[@Helios.vfx.]

MVPs!!!!!

[@khoailang5983]

yessss

[@w.a.l.l.a.c.e.]

I'm interested in learning rigging in Houdini, how are the animation tools? I'd love to hear some experiences :)

[@Todd_Manus]

I wonder if some of the UI improvements are due to updates to Qt 6?

[@ahahlex]

It was the keynote of h25.0 not h20.5

[@SimonvandenBroek-zl5jp]

Looking forward to play with Cops. I've been hoping for something like this. I mean procedural modelling is a lot of fun. and it's even more fun if you have procedural textures on top. Fact that modelling aspects can be done through cops aswell is super epic. I hope apex has become a bit more stable. My last experimentations with it felt okay, for an actual client project I went back to the kinefx style rigging even after learning apex. lots of bugs. is the apex animation system out of beta with this release or is it in a similar state as before but more features?

[@fastlearner292]

It's still in BETA 2. I think it's probably going to stay this way for the next major releases too. Better this way actually, they are definitely going through all this while listening to their userbase and beta testers from freelancers to big studios. This means it will take some time to get out of beta, but by then it will be fully fledged and a pretty huge blow to Maya

[@qaisarkhan7740]

Now we Need a bunch of Tutorials 😂.

[@azadnezamdust479]

Can we use Copernicus to bake info from high poly to low poly. That would be greate because current baking solution is very slow in high res baking.

[@houdini3d]

Not right now - but it is a workflow we will look into for the future

[@djorzgul]

oh, oh... age of Houdini is coming :)

[@wallacesousuke1433]

Not happening until they make it non-reliant on having a programming background..

[@endizero]

and those will have some Extra bundle complex texture .

[@JohnDowson100]

Question: Is on demand texture loading possible in Karma XPU on this release? 😮 can mtlX now support Texture string primvars?

[@xl000]

that would be nice. Especially to load FBX and translate the textures in SOP to something that can be read down the line

[@MuhammadHaris-hw5xp]

So we don't need substance painter now?

[@sphanhoo]

Awsome ！！😁

[@V.Z.69]

Interesting swirly boy logo

[@Atimo133]

CAR RIG YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@anujpartihar]

is this thing actually affordable or usable for learners/solo devs for their own project without breaking the bank?

[@HoudiniGameArtist]

There is a free version to learn on, which keeps you within the platform. And a dirt cheap Indie version which is feature complete, so long as you make less than 100k using it. And upgrading to Core is competitively priced compared to other DCCs, but will definitely set you back if you are solo. FX package is quite pricey if you are doing high end VFX shots.

[@anujpartihar]

@@HoudiniGameArtist damn thanks for the great answer 🙌

[@serjanburlak2736]

❤🎉

[@3D_GO]

Cops will open up texturing materials 2d fx for animation and games. Could do motion graphics. 2d to 3d modelling. Opens up ai options as well as eventually compositing.

[@3D_GO]

Attributes from SOPs into COPs is the real killer feature and will really push Houdini past what you might be able to do in SD.

[@3D_GO]

The depth map example on Capy is a really interesting case. You can generate depth maps from video, say of someones head and map on fx work without neccesarily modelling them, skipping modelling rigging and body tracking. Not a high end solution and all very dependant on the quality of the depth maps but really starts to drive home what 2D smahing into 3D might look like.

[@yodancristino]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@akashsbabu2999]

❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

[@MrPuffballboy]

exciting stuff

[@Ramt33n]

OFX too??!!! wow!

[@ClayMole]

lol RIP all other DCC's Maya's straight up destroyed with this one

[@REDEX737]

5hours left

[@musashidanmcgrath]

Max and Maya 2025 annual release notes: Well.....we added a new loading splashscreen image and cleaned up some of the typos in the documentation......$$$ee you next year.....

[@ripvangu]

letssss gooooooooo

[@ThomasGamble-bn4bb]

WOAHHHH