Labs 2D Wave Function Collapse

The main WFC node: The solver.

Labs 3D Facebook Image

Quickly render a 3D scene to a 2.5D image that can be uploaded to Facebook.

Labs AV Analyze Images

Match all features between candidate image pairs using Alicevision.

Labs AV Depth Map

Retrieves the depth value of each pixel from the cameras using Alicevision.

Labs AV Initialize

Configure which images to process using Alicevision.

Labs AV Meshing

Creates a dense geometric surface representation of the scene using Alicevision.

Labs AV Photogrammetry

The complete Alicevision photogrammetry pipeline.

Labs AV Structure from Motion

Detects 3D points with position and orientation and calibrate the cameras accordingly using Alicevision.

Labs AV Texturing

Texture the generated mesh using Alicevision.

Labs Align and Distribute

Aligns and arranges geometry pieces in linear or grid layouts.

Labs Attribute Import

Imports geometry attributes as image planes using a UV attribute

Labs Attribute Normalize Float

Normalizes floating-point attribute values to a specified range.

Labs Attribute Normalize Vector

Normalizes vector attribute lengths to a specified range.

Labs Attribute Value Replace

Replaces attribute values with user-defined values.

Labs Auto UV

Automatically generates UV attributes using one of multiple algorithmic methods.

Labs Automatic Trim Texture

Automatic Trim Texturing node.

Labs Biome Attributes Evolve

Evolve all the attributes on the terrain to create more realistic results.

Labs Biome Attributes to Terrain

Assign the base biome attributes onto the terrain

Labs Biome Configure

Scatters plants on an example mountain terrain with one biome.

Labs Biome Configure Multibiomes

Scatters plants on an example mountain terrain with multiple biomes.

Labs Biome Curve Label

This node sets the necessary attributes on curves created in Houdini to use with Labs Biome Region Assign SOP.

Labs Biome Define

Define the biome attributes for the Biome Toolset.

Labs Biome Definitions File

This node reads biome information from the disk file or writes to the disk file from input Biome Define SOP nodes.

Labs Biome Plant Define

Defines the plant attributes for the Biome Toolset.

Labs Biome Plant Definitions File

This node reads plant information from the disk file or writes to the disk file from input Biome Plant Define SOP nodes.

Labs Biome Plant Scatter

Scatters plant species points across the surface of an input heightfield by matching input plant types with their preferred environmental conditions.

Labs Biome Plant Scatter Import

Import a biome plant scatter from SOPs to LOPs.

Labs Biome Region Assign

Delineates biome regions for the Biome Toolset workflow.

Labs Blackbody

Generates a blackbody ramp, or colorizes a black and white image with a blackbody ramp

Labs Boolean Curve

Performs boolean operations between a polycurve and polygonal geometry.

Labs Box Clip

Clips geometry using a resizable box-shaped region.

Labs Boxcutter

Performs interactive boolean cuts in the viewport for hard-surface modeling.

Labs Building Generator

Generates detailed building geometry from low-resolution blockout meshes using modular components.

Labs Building Generator Utility

Creates and configures building modules for use with the Labs Building Generator.

Labs Building from Patterns

Creates buildings from blockout geometry defined by a pattern of floor modules.

Labs CSV Exporter

Export geometry attibutes to a CSV file.

Labs Cable Generator

Creates and simulates cables based on curve or geometry input.

Labs Calculate Slope

Calculate the slope of a surface by comparing to a direction, and optionally blur and remap the result.

Labs Calculate Thickness

Computes an approximate thickness value for geometry using inward ray casting.

Labs Calculate UV Distortion

Calculates the UV distortion of a mesh.

Labs Capsule

Generates a capsule mesh.

Labs Chaotic Shapes

Generates different chaotic maps.

Labs Clean Seams

Removes from an edge group all the edges that are not borders between different primitive islands identified by an island attribute.

Labs Cluster Refine

Refines cluster boundaries by propagating cluster influence across neighboring elements.

Labs Color Blend

Blends Color data on 2 separate meshes based on common algorithms

Labs Concatenate Text

Merges one or more text files into a single file.

Labs Connect Polygon Neighbours

Creates points at polygon centroids and optionally connects neighboring polygons.

Labs Connectivity and Segmentation

This node segments geometry based on connectivity, UV islands, proximity clustering, and custom attributes. This is very useful when paired with the multithreaded functionality of compile blocks.

Labs Cook with Timeout

Cooks geometry with optional time limits and controlled execution.

Labs Coord Swizzle Quaternion

Swizzles Quaternions in order to change rotation spaces

Labs Coord Swizzle Vector

Reorders Vector Components

Labs Curve Branches

Scatters curves over curves, with many intuitive controls to go from clean geometric branches to organic vines. Duplicates of this sop can be chained together for recursive growth, approximating the look of L-Systems but much more controllable.

Labs Curve Resample by Density

Redistributes points along curves based on density criteria.

Labs Cut Geometry to Partitions

Cuts up incoming geometry

Labs Cylinder

Create a tube from a curve, with UVs and normals.

Labs Data Diff

Diffs a variety of geometry, text and image files.

Labs Decal Projector

Project a decal (localized piece of geometry and a texture) onto geometry.

Labs Delete Small Parts

Removes pieces based on connectivity and size

Labs Delight

Remove light and shadow variation from photogrammetry textures.

Labs Demosaic

Converts a single mosaic (flipbook/subuv) image into a sequence of sub images based on the frame

Labs Destruction Cleanup

Prepare rigid body simulation results for export, reducing redundant geometry, cleaning normals, cleaning attributes.

Labs Detail Mesh

The Detail Mesh SOP allows you to project a so called detail mesh onto template geometry.

Labs Dirt Skirt

Creates a geometry “skirt” where an object intersects a ground surface. The skirt is intended to serve as a soft blend region when imported into a game engine.

Labs Disc

Create a polygon disc with UVs.

Labs Dissolve Flat Edges

Remove edges on flat surfaces.

Labs Distance From Border

Calculates the distance for each point from the nearest unshared edge

Labs Edge Color

Color sharp edges on geometry

Labs Edge Damage

Adds procedural damage along hard edges to create worn, eroded, or aged-looking geometry.

Labs Edge Group To Curve

Converts edge groups to polycurves.

Labs Edge Smooth

Smooth an edge-group found in input geometry.

Labs Export UV Wireframe

Exports a UV wireframe image for use in external texturing workflows.

Labs Extract Borders

Extract curves from Meshes

Labs Extract Filename

Stores the filename of a file SOP as its detail attributes to be then used in other SOPs.

Labs Extract Image Metadata

Extracts image metadata, such as the resolution, bit depth, color model, etc.

Labs Extract Silhouette

Create an outline of an object projected from either an axis, or from a camera.

Labs FBX Archive Import

Import an FBX as an archive similar to how the Alembic Archive sop works.

Labs Fast Gaussian Curvature

Computes Gaussian curvature using a fast angle-deficit method.

Labs Fast Group Unshared

Identifies and groups unshared geometry elements.

Labs Fast Remesh

This node performs Houdini’s native remeshing operation on partitioned geometry, processing each piece in parallel which greatly reduces the calculation time of traditional remeshing.

Labs File Cache

Caches (writes out once and then reads from) geometry (possibly animated) to disk.

Labs File Cache

Caches (writes out once and then reads from) geometry (possibly animated) to disk.

Labs File Cache Filter

Partition work items used for file caching

Labs File Cache Partitioner

Partitions and generates work items based on range and wedge values for file cache.

Labs Filter by Value

Filters one or multiple work items by specific attribute values.

Labs Fire Presets

Quickly generate and render fire simulations using presets for size varying from torch to small to 1m high and low

Labs Flipbook Textures

Renders, composites, and exports flipbook textures.

Labs Flowmap

This utility tool sets up a flowmap template on your input geometry.

Labs Flowmap Distort

The flowmap distortion applied on a texture usable for renders

Labs Flowmap Obstacle

The flowmap obstacle SOP allows for easy modifications on the flowmap based on geometry.

Labs Flowmap Shader

The flowmap SHOP is a GLSL based viewport shader to preview flowmap shaders.

Labs Flowmap Visualize

A high quality realtime preview of a flowmap texture in the Houdini viewport.

Labs Flowmap to Color

The flowmap to color SOP converts the flowmap data to vertex colors

Labs Games Baker

Generate Textures based on a High Poly to Low Poly match

Labs Gas Expand from Temperature

Creates divergence from temperature change.

Labs Gas Flamefront

A simple flamefront combustion model.

Labs Generate from Imageplanes

Generates work items based on image planes found in an image

Labs GoZ Export

Sends Houdini Mesh data automatically to Zbrush

Labs GoZ Import

Contains GoZ data sent from Zbrush

Labs Grid Texture

Generates a texture that can be used as a simple resolution checkerboard

Labs Group Curve Corners

Creates Groups for Inside and Outside corner points

Labs Group by Attribute

Converts Attributes to Groups

Labs Group by Measure

Allows for grouping geometry based on properties that can be measured

Labs Guide Flowmap

The Guide Flowmap modifies a flowmap based on a guide curve.

Labs HF Combine Masks

Simplifies the process of blending masks together in Heightfields

Labs HF Insert Mask

Allows you to insert a layer from another heightfield.

Labs Hexagon Grid

Generates a hexagonal grid.

Labs Houdini Icon

Generates a geometric representation of the Houdini icon.

Labs Impostor Camera Rig

This OBJ sets up a camera rig to be used with the Impostor Texture ROP

Labs Impostor Texture

The impostor tool creates texture sheets to fake 3D objects in your game engine.

Labs Inside Face UVs

Create UV’s for inside faces of Voronoi fractured geometry.

Labs Instance Attributes

Builds and manages instance-related attributes for geometry instancing workflows.

Labs JSON Exporter

Export geometry attibutes to a JSON file.

Labs Karma

Renders USD stages using Karma with integrated caching, wedging, and TOPs workflows.

Labs Karma AOVs for RenderMan Denoiser

Generates AOVs for the Pixar RenderMan denoiser.

Labs Karma Render

Renders images using Karma through TOPs with file versioning, wedging, and scheduling support.

Labs LOD Create

Allows for easy LOD generation.

Labs LOD Hierarchy

Creates and export an LOD Hierarchy as FBX.

Labs Lightning

Generate lightning effect around meshes

Labs Loop Volume

Takes one or two input volume sequences and creates a seamlessly looping volume animation.

Labs Loops from Selection

Finds edge loops or quad loops from manually or procedurally selected start edges.

Labs Lot Subdivision

Divides polygons into panels.

Labs ML CV Directory Import

Imports the assets from a directory.

Labs ML CV Directory Variant

Creates a variant set from USD assets in a directory.

Labs ML CV Dome Camera

Generates a camera from one of the random positions within a specified 3D camera dome and frames the focus object within the camera’s view.

Labs ML CV Keypoint Metadata

Prepares the keypoint metadata.

Labs ML CV Label Metadata

Prepares the label metadata.

Labs ML CV Promote Synth Attribute

Converts an attribute into a format compatible with COCO JSON.

Labs ML CV ROP Annotation Output

Outputs a ground truth JSON per frame and then aggregates them all into a COCO JSON file for the full dataset.

Labs ML CV ROP Synthetic Data

The base template for synthetic dataset pipelines.

Labs ML CV Synthetics Karma Rop

Renders RGB image or ID EXR file for segmentation masking.

Labs ML CV Texture Mask

Adds geometry attributes needed for the mask ground truth pipeline.

Labs ML CV Vector Data

Creates the ground truth for 3D vectors.

Labs ML CV Visualize Keypoints

Visualizes keypoints and their connections.

Labs Make Loop

Takes a mesh or volume that is animated and loops them.

Labs Mandelbulb

Generates Mandelbulb geometry.

Labs Maps Baker

Generates textures bakes from a high resolution to low resolution model at near interactive speeds.

Labs Marmoset Export

The Marmoset Export ROP allows you to quickly generate an mview inside Houdini

Labs Material to Override

Generates material_override attributes per primitive based on the assigned material.

Labs Measure Curvature

Measures the convex and concave curvature of a model.

Labs Merge Small Islands

Consolidates Small UV Islands into Larger Neighbors

Labs Merge Splines

Merges disconnected Polylines together like the Polypath Sop, cutting them at intersections. But with specified conditions, while preserving and merging attributes and groups.

Labs Mesh Sharpen

Sharpens the geometry based on curvature

Labs Mesh Slice

Clips the geometry into multiple submeshes based on a 3d grid pattern

Labs Mesh Tiler

Makes packed geometry lying on a plane tileable.

Labs Min Max Average

Multiple Min/Max/Average analyses in a single node.

Labs Motionvector Shader

Viewport shader for motion vector textures

Labs Multi Bounding Box

Generate Several Bounding Boxes For the Input Mesh

Labs Name from Capture Weight

Detects what the bone name of the highest skinning weight influence is.

Labs Niagara ROP

Export point caches to be used with Unreal’s Niagara particle system.

Labs Niagara ROP

Export point caches to be used with Unreal’s Niagara particle system.

Labs Normal Color

Simple Helper Node to generate the default Normal Color

Labs Normal Combine

Overlays 2 normal maps together

Labs Normal From Grayscale

Convert a grayscale image into a normal map

Labs Normal Invert

Invert individual channels on an image

Labs Normal Rotate

Rotates a normal map while correcting recalculating it’s internal vectors

Labs OBJ Importer

Import an OBJ File including its materials and textures.

Labs OSM Buildings

Generate Buildings from OSM Data

Labs OSM Filter

Isolates Specific OSM Data Layers

Labs OSM Import

Imports Open Street Map Data

Labs Octahedron Lens

This is a CVEX based Lens Shader used to generate Impostors.

Labs PBR Shader

Physically Based Viewport Shader

Labs PCG Export

Takes a point cloud with attributes and exports them as 2 CSV files to be used with Unreal Engine PCG system.

Labs PDG Work-Item Import

Import input and output files attached to a work-item in PDG

Labs Path Deform

Deform geometry along a curve.

Labs Pathfinding Global

This node creates paths between points of interest on a given terrain based on cost and avoidance attributes.

Labs Physical Ambient Occlusion

Computes ambient occlusion, generates dirt masks, as well as identifies peaks and valleys on meshes.

Labs Physics Painter

Allows users to paint physics objects onto any other object.

Labs Pick and Place

Allows you to interactively place individual objects in a scene.

Labs PolyDeform

Warps a source mesh to match the shape of a target

Labs PolyScalpel

Slices new polygonal edges or points into the primary input geometry from the secondary input in various configurations.

Labs PolySlice

Slice polygons into polygons or polylines

Labs PolyWire UV

Generates polywire geometry from curve networks with consistent UVs and orientation.

Labs Post Animation Deform

Apply modeling changes to deforming geometry

Labs Procedural Smoke

The procedural smoke SOP will generate an animated volume to represent smoke.

Labs Progressive Resample

Resamples a curve progressively based on an attribute

Labs Pyro Preview ROP

A mantra wrapper for previewing pyro renders.

Labs Quad Sphere

Generates a quad spherical mesh.

Labs Quadrangulate

Converts triangulated meshes back into a quad-dominant topology by collapsing diagonal edges and repairing resulting N-gons.

Labs Quick Basic Tree

Generates a simple procedural tree for rapid prototyping.

Labs RBD Edge Strip

Generate polystrips on fractured geometry for extra destruction detail in game engines.

Labs RBD to FBX

This tool allows for fast export of an RBD Sim to bone based FBX

Labs Radial Sort

Reorders points and primitives in a radial way.

Labs Random Selection

Randomly selects a subset of input points or primitives.

Labs Regions from Image

Labs Remove Inside Faces

This tool removes inside faces for objects that are intersecting.

Labs Remove UV Distortion

Remove UV Distortion tries to reduce UV distortion by inserting new seams

Labs Render Geometry

Renders cached or merged geometry with controlled loading, display, and render settings.

Labs Repair

Quickly repairs an area of a mesh

Labs RizomUV Optimize

Enables the use of RizomUV and performs a UV optimize inside Houdini

Labs RizomUV Processor

Enables the use of RizomUV within Houdini.

Labs RizomUV Rectangularize

Enables the use of RizomUV and performs a UV rectangularize inside Houdini

Labs RizomUV Unwrap

Enables the use of RizomUV and performs a UV unwrap inside Houdini

Labs Road Generator

Generate roads from curves or OSM data

Labs SciFi Panels

Example HDA from the Rebirth Project to generate Sci Fi Panneling

Labs Settlement Connections

This node generates connections between points of interest based on angle and distance calculations.

Labs Simple Baker

SOP Based Baking of Texture Maps

Labs Simple Retime

Retimes animated geometry using a ramp.

Labs Simple Rope Wrap

Generate a rubber band like rope around an object based on inputs.

Labs Simple Shapes

Creates simple 2D shapes.

Labs Sine Wave

Deforms a mesh based on a sine wave curve

Labs Sketchfab

Uploads geometry to Sketchfab

Labs Sketchfab

Uploads geometry to Sketchfab

Labs Skinning Converter

Skinning Converter is a SOP that can convert any non-changing topology deforming mesh sequence into a bone based animation.

Labs Snow Buildup

Creates geometry to an input mesh that mimics snow build up.

Labs Soften Normals

Soften Normals is a convenience SOP that is frequently used to prepare geometry for baking.

Labs Spectral Feature Extract

Extracts frequency-based features from scalar or vector attributes.

Labs Splatter

Creates a POP Fluid simulation setup for splattering.

Labs Split Primitives by Normal

Splits primitives into separate outputs based on their primitive normals.

Labs Static Fracture Export

The Static Fracture SOP takes static geometry data from sop level, and separates them into newly generated geometry containers on object level

Labs Straight Skeleton 2D

Generate the central curve (straight skeleton) for 2D input shapes.

Labs Straight Skeleton 3D

Generates a curve based on the internal structure of a mesh

Labs Straighten

Orients a mesh based on up and front groups.

Labs Substance Archive

Load Substance Archive (SBSAR) Files into COPs

Labs Substance Material

Loads a Substance archive and assigns it as a PBR material.

Labs Superformula Shapes

Creates 2D shapes using the superformula equation.

Labs Terrain Analysis

This node analyzes a HeightField and generates cost and avoidance attributes.

Labs Terrain Layer Export

The terrain layer export SOP exports a heightfield with the correct settings for Unreal.

Labs Terrain Layer Import

The terrain layer import SOP exports a heightfield with the correct settings from Unreal.

Labs Terrain Mesh ROP

The Terrain Mesh Output allows you to convert the plugged in heightfield into (tiled) geometry.

Labs Terrain Texture ROP

The Terrain Texture Output renders image data from a heightfield.

Labs Test Geometry: Luiz

A scan of Luiz Kruel.

Labs Test Geometry: Paul

A scan of Paul Ambrosiussen.

Labs Texel Density

Measures, visualizes, and calculates UV texel density.

Labs Thicken

Extrudes a mesh along it’s averaged normals

Labs Toon Shader

A GLSL toon shader based on the Guilty Gears GDC 2015 talk

Labs Toon Shader

A GLSL toon shader based on the Guilty Gears GDC 2015 talk

Labs Trace PSD File

Generates Curves from Photoshop file layers.

Labs Tree Branch Generator

Generates tree branches

Labs Tree Branch Generator

Generates procedural tree branches on trunks or existing branches.

Labs Tree Branch Placer

Places and shapes procedural tree branches with interactive and rule-based controls.

Labs Tree Controller

Controls other tree nodes

Labs Tree Controller

Controls global growth, deformation, pruning, and meshing settings for Labs tree nodes.

Labs Tree Hierarchy

This tool extracts geometry and pivot points from trees created with Labs Tree Generator tools for use with Labs Unreal PivotPainter.

Labs Tree Leaf Generator

Generates leaves on procedural tree branches.

Labs Tree Simple Leaf

Generates a simple leaf mesh for preview and procedural foliage workflows.

Labs Tree Trunk Generator

Generates a tree trunk

Labs Tree Trunk Generator

Generates the trunk of a procedural tree.

Labs Trim Texture

Interactive version of the Trim Texture node.

Labs Trim Texture Utility

Helps preparing trim texture geometry for a Trim Texture workflow

Labs Triplanar Displace

Displacing geometry based on a triplanar projection

Labs Turntable Lens

This is a CVEX based Lens Shader used to generate Impostors.

Labs UDIM Tile Number

Creates a UDIM tile number attribute on primitives, points, or vertices.

Labs UV Remove Overlap

Marks and optionally repairs UV overlaps.

Labs UV Transfer

Transfer UVs between a source and target geometry.

Labs UV Unitize

Scales primitives or UV islands to fit within a unit UV space.

Labs UV Unwrap Cylinder

Unwraps cylindrical shaped meshes.

Labs UV Visualize

Visualizes UV attributes and properties.

Labs Unreal Groom Export

Exports hair to Unreal Engine.

Labs Unreal Pivot Painter

Pivot Painter stores model pivot and rotation information for geometry used in a shader.

Labs Unreal Spline

Takes a curve and turns it into an Unreal Spline, it can import and export multiple splines.

Labs Unreal Worldcomposition Prepare

Prepare heightfield and actor instances for use with World Composition in Unreal

Labs VDB Transform Properties

Converts the input volume/VDB field to a VDB vector field and updates how the vector field will respond to transformations downstream.

Labs Validate Geometry Type

This node evaluates the geometry types of the input geometry and returns a warning message if the specified geometry type and type count are not found.

Labs Vector Field Export

Export a vector field, compatible with Unreal Engine.

Labs Vertex Animation Textures

Exports a mesh and a set of textures to be used with a shader for complex real-time effects, such as: soft-body deformation, rigid-body dynamics, dynamically remeshed geometries, and particle sprites.

Labs View Vertex Order

A simple utility that creates arrow indicators on poly primitives displaying their vertex order.

Labs Visualize Vector

Visualizes vectors as arrows.

Labs Volume Adjust Look

Adjusts volume visualization mode (default / normals / motion vectors), density, colors (including greyscale colors), emission, and viewport rendering quality.

Labs VolumeTexture Export

Take a volume as an input and export a texture of the density field.

Labs WFC Initialize Grid

A utility tool to initialize a WFC grid to be used with the WFC Solver

Labs WFC Sample Paint

A utility tool to paint attribute values on a grid used by the WFC Solver

Labs Wang Tiles Decoder

A decoder that decodes color information into Wang Tilesets.

Labs Wang Tiles Sample

Sample tiles that can be used as Wang Tilesets.

Labs Wedge

Creates work items with varying attribute values.

Labs XYZ Pointcloud Exporter

Export a pointcloud to XYZ file.

Labs ZibraVDB Compress

Compresses a VDB sequence and caches it to disk as a single .zibravdb file.

Labs ZibraVDB Compress

Compresses a VDB sequence and caches it to disk as a single .zibravdb file.

Labs ZibraVDB Decompress

Loads a single .zibravdb file from disk and decompresses it as a VDB sequence.

Labs ZibraVDB File Cache

Performs compression and caching, or loading and decompression, of a VDB sequence to or from a single .zibravdb file.