Exploring new features in Houdini 18.0 with iRender Cloud Rendering

Houdini 18 introduces SideFX Solaris – a USD-based context for lookdev, layout and lighting that brings procedural tools to this important part of the pipeline. This release also includes SOP-based tools for configuring Destruction and Pyro FX shots, and UX enhancements throughout the software. In Blog’s Today, we will explore new features in Houdini 18.0 with iRender.

New features now available in the production release of the software include Topo Transfer, a neat new system for deforming a source mesh organically to match the dimensions of a target mesh. In the video above, it looks reminiscent of Wrap, R3DS’s popular standalone topology transfer tool, enabling users to transfer clean, all-quad topology from a stock base model to a 3D character scan. As with Wrap, automating the transfer process should greatly reduce the manual work needed to convert raw scan data into animation-ready geometry. Users can also define corresponding landmark points on source and target meshes to improve the quality of the results the Topo Transfer SOP generates.

Other new modeling features backported in Houdini 18 Build 499 include the Path Deform SOP. As the name suggests, it deforms geometry along a path, with use cases ranging from creating 3D text to modeling long linear objects like belts or chains. Users can apply secondary deformations like twisting or scaling to the curve-deformed model, and both the mapping of the model to the curve and the curve itself can be animated.

New viewport features include a fog system with controls for density, opacity, height and depth range. The fog interacts with scene lighting in real time, and can be rendered to disk using the OpenGL ROP, which now supports 64-bit precision. Other rendering changes include support for random walk subsurface scattering in Karma, the new USD-native render engine introduced in Houdini 18.0.

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