CHARACTER FX
Check out the new Feather tools which complement the fur, cloth, muscles, and crowd tools available for CFX artists.
Feathers
Houdini’s feather system lets you create large amounts of realistic and highly detailed feathers. Tools are available for look development, shaping, texturing and grooming, along with simulation and rendering. A wide variety of nodes and attributes help you to design, modify and customize the feathers to your exact needs. The feather system is GPU-accelerated.
Feathers Intro
Create Feathers
Feather Grooming & Lookdev
Grooming tools let you easily shape and style the feathers using the same techniques used to groom hair and fur.
Paint Mask
Deintersect
Vulkan Viewport
Karma XPU
Hair & Fur Shader
The Hair shader has been enhanced to work with Karma XPU. This shader creates a more accurate look for your creatures. You can now render more kinds of fur especially to achieve a soft fluffy look. This shader also works well with feathers.
Karma XPU Fur
Muscles & Skin
The Muscles & Skin system allows you to bring in modeled polygonal geometry, generate a multilayered simulation that mimics realistic muscle movements and skin effects from that geometry, and then export the simulation to your high-resolution geometry for integration into your shots.
Frankenmuscle
Machine Learning Deformer
Crowds
Crowds can now be set up at the geometry [SOP] level using a suite of new tools. The Crowds MotionPath tools allows you quickly make changes to the motion path or the animation of a small number of agents without the need to re-simulate the entire crowd.
Crowd Paths
Sticky Collisions
CHARACTER FX FEATURES AVAILABLE IN:
Houdini CORE | Houdini FX | Houdini Indie | Houdini Education | Houdini Apprentice