WHAT'S NEW
Houdini 22 delivers powerful workflow improvements across every stage of production. From a refined interface and production-ready Gaussian Splats to faster character, modeling, look development, VFX, and world-building tools.
This release streamlines production with faster workflows, greater procedural flexibility, and powerful new tools that help artists create higher-quality work across film, games, motion graphics and more.
Keynote
Sneak Peek
Demos taken from the Keynote are presented on the What's New pages to be watched one at a time.
UI/UX
Houdini enhances usability with customizable themes, searchable preferences, richer tooltips, improved color tools, and visual ramp editing.
Gaussian Splats
GSplats give artists the ability to create, animate, relight, simulate, and composite photorealistic 3D assets interactively.
Characters
Animators and riggers can utilize procedural workflows to reduce setup time and improve collaboration across all the parts of your character pipeline.
CFX
CFX artists can iterate faster with improved muscles, tissue, crowds, and hair & fur workflows, to deliver more realistic simulations.
Modeling
Houdini's modeling updates improve topology, subdivision workflows, procedural tools, and curve animation, delivering faster, higher-quality, and more flexible modeling workflows.
Lookdev
Solaris has new layout, world-building and set dressing tools. The Copernicus texturing tools such as new grunge maps and baking tools have matured and are ready for production.
VFX
This release prioritizes workflow refinement, faster fracturing, tearing metal with the Bullet solver, production-ready GPU Pyro in Copernicus and a variety of Pyro FX recipes.
World Building
Terrain and oceans move into Copernicus, delivering faster performance, unified workflows, texture-based simulations, and game-ready animated maps.
UI/UX
Houdini’s UI refresh delivers a more modern, intuitive, and customizable experience designed to improve usability across the application. The new design makes it easier to learn, navigate, and tailor the interface to individual preferences, helping artists work more efficiently while focusing on their creative work.
Themes
The new theme editor enables easy interface customization with adjustable colors, reusable presets, and a global contrast slider.
Prefs UI
The redesigned preferences feature a cleaner layout, improved organization, easier navigation, and searchable settings for a smoother user experience.
Tool Tips
Enhanced tooltips provide visual context and guidance, helping users understand features faster while offering quick access to detailed help.
Colors & Ramps
Houdini’s revamped color picker and ramp catalog provide advanced color controls, shareable palettes, visual ramp browsing, and adaptive sampling tools.
MODELING
Houdini’s latest modeling tools focus on faster, more intuitive workflows that deliver high-quality results. Everyday modeling tasks are streamlined with smarter remeshing, improved subdivisions, curve animation, surface-based procedural tools, and SideFX Labs utilities.
Quad Remesh
Quad Remesh improves quad flow, hard-edge detection, CAD topology, symmetry, and organic edge flow. This produces cleaner meshes that closely match the modeled geometry.
Subdivisions
Subdivision display now supports interactive limit-surface editing, simultaneous cage and surface visualization, and real-time feedback. This streamlines subdivision modeling workflows.
Walk on Surface
Walk on Surface moves points and curves cleanly across meshes using directions, attributes, or vector fields for versatile modeling and effects workflows.
Split by Expression | Labs
SideFX Labs’ Split by Expression tool simplifies geometry splitting, provides method-specific interfaces, exposes VEX expressions, and doubles as a practical learning resource.
Curve Animate
Curve Animate enables animated positions, tangents, and topology changes with smooth interpolation, providing powerful, flexible curve animation for modeling and future workflows.
Morph
Curve Animate smoothly morphs profiles without self-intersections, enabling animated revolved models and expanding creative possibilities for modeling and effects.
Houdini Architecture
SideFX has made key changes to Houdini's architecture for this release.
01
NEW MATH LIBRARY
Houdini 22 features a brand-new math library. This library provides increased performance and numerical stability for all operations in the application.
02
NEW MEMORY ALLOCATORS
Houdini 22 features new memory allocators for each platform. These allocators provide increased performance and decreased memory consumption.
03
LINUX ARM PREVIEW
Houdini 22 is now built for Linux on the Arm architecture. This opens the door to a new architecture with reduced cloud computing costs alongside higher energy efficiency and performance.