What's new in Houdini 9.5

Houdini now works on Mac OS X.

Many digital asset refinements, including the ability to specify editable nodes within a locked asset. For more information see Operator Type Properties window.

FBX Export.

FBX NURBS import.

Quicktime output from MPlay to Mac/Linux/Win.

Adobe Illustrator™ import.

RBD Fracture tools, such as break, shatter, and debris generation.

Wave simulation tool: Whitecaps.

River simulation tool: Sculpted particle fluid.

New and improved fire and smoke and new shelf tools: Paint Fuel and Paint Temperature.

Adaptive and animated level-set solvers.

Encapsulation of current fur workflow into easy to use fur tools.

Auto-rig refinements.

CVEX VOP context.

Ramp Parameter VOP.

Ramp Parameter vector and float.

Improved OpenGL2 support in the viewport.

Support for GLSL shaders in SHOPs.

Real-time shadows in the viewport.

Advect particle tool.

Added arrays as a datatype in VEX. See VEX arrays.

As part of the new language support for arrays, VEX now also supports accessing members of a vector using the same name[index] syntax as arrays.