New VEX functions ¶
== New expression function =
Houdini 20.0 What’s new What’s new in Houdini 18
Houdini 20.0 What’s new What’s new in Houdini 18
Solaris is Houdini’s support for creating and editing USD. This includes a new network type (LOPs), tools for layout and lighting, an improved scene viewer that displays the scene using Hydra delegates, and a new renderer (Karma) that natively renders USD files.
Houdini 18 features exciting improvements to destruction workflows such as guided destruction, improved chipping, destruction in SOPs, and custom fracturing.
Houdini 18 adds numerous new and improved tools for interactive and procedural modeling.
In Houdini 18 PDG has even better wedging, better Deadline and Tractor integration, a new toolbar UI to get an overall sense of the network state, and numerous improvements to tools and internals.
Houdini 18 includes improvements to the viewport and user interface such as a new Paint tool, 2D pan and zoom of 3D cameras, hotkeys in radial menus, and much improved custom Python states.
Houdini 18 features a new more efficient sparse volume implementation of pyro, pyro in SOPs, and faster FLIP fluids.
In Houdini 18 vellum improves resolution and scale independence, more robustness, sliding surface constraints, and other constraint improvements.
Houdini 18 adds blendshapes on agents, export from crowds to USD skeletons, procedural clip transitions, better FBX support, and more.
Houdini adds new solver models with improved realism and performance.