Houdini 9.5

Getting started

• Welcome to Houdini

  Use Edit > Open help browser at startup to control whether this page appears when Houdini starts up.
• What’s new
• Basics
• Shelf tools

  How to use and customize the strip of icon buttons across the top of the main window.
• Network and parameters
• Examples
• How to use the help

Using Houdini

• Modeling

  How to create and edit geometry.
• Animation
• Character animation
• Particles
• Dynamics
• Fur
• Lighting

  How to use and customize lights.
• Shading
• Rendering
• Compositing
• Digital assets
• MPlay viewer
• How to

Reference

• Nodes
• Houdini Object Model
• Expression functions
• HScript commands
• VEX
• Galleries
• Spatial audio
• Reference

• Copying and instancing

  You can use copies (real geometry) and instances (geometry that is only loaded or created at render time) to achieve complex effects such as crowds, flocks, and other groups.
• Import and export

  How to get scene, object, and other data in and out of Houdini.