“When it comes to creating game assets, Houdini’s procedural workflow is a massive time saver,” says Jacinda Chew, Studio Art Director at Insomniac Games. Houdini’s procedural engine will then “cook” the asset and the results, previously only available to Houdini artists, will be delivered to the host application. The assets can be loaded into any application where artists can set parameters to customize the output.
Now with the Houdini Engine, these digital assets can be used by anyone. The resulting efficiencies save studios both time and money which is critical in these challenging times. Houdini studios have been using these assets to successfully build robust pipelines where artists and technical directors create tools that are shared and re-used to ensure consistency across a project.
These digital assets can be built interactively using networks of nodes to define a controllable flow of live data, usually without writing any code. The Houdini Engine works by leveraging Houdini’s Digital Asset technology. All CG artists interested in testing these plug-ins are invited to go to to sign up for the upcoming technology preview. Side Effects is making these plug-ins available to artists to solicit feedback from the wider CG community before taking them to market. The Houdini Engine is also being used to power plug-ins for Autodesk Maya and the Unity game engine editor which will be released in the coming months as experimental software from SideFX labs. “ In essence, we have turned Houdini into the world’s most powerful plug-in for any number of DCC apps.” “The Houdini Engine makes it possible for more CG artists to experience the power and flexibility of our procedural workflow.” says Kim Davidson, President and CEO, Side Effects Software. Experimental plug-ins for popular DCC apps such as Autodesk Maya and the Unity game engine are under development at SideFX Labs.
The Houdini Engine is a compact API which extracts Houdini's core technologies into a powerful procedural engine for film and game studios to integrate into proprietary applications. Now both film and game studios can load Houdini Digital Assets into their go-to applications and build a more integrated procedural pipeline that does not rely on baked-out data. TORONTO - Side Effects Software has announced the Houdini Engine, which allows for deep integration of Houdini technology into a wide variety of Digital Content Creation tools.
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