Projects tagged ‘houdini’

Blender is a 3D animation and compositing suite with tools for modeling (advanced subdivision modeling, multiresolution sculpting), uv unwrapping, texturing (procedural node, 2D and 3D painting) ... [More] , animation, rendering, particles and simulation (including fluid dynamics, hard body physics, cloth and hair), post-production with node based compositing and non linear editing, integrated game engine (with graphical programming, vehicle and rag doll constraints) and python scripting including an import and export suite. Blender runs on all major operating systems including Windows XP/Vista, OS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris and Irix. It has sculpting similar to ZBrush©, is a full animation suite similar to Maya© or 3DS Max© ; has compositing comparable to Nuke, and full video editing. [Less]

Moonlight|3D is a free modern, flexible and extensible modelling and animation tool developed by a small but dedicated team. The goal is to provide a tool that is capable of turning even the most ... [More] advanced and challenging projects of artists and technical artists into reality. We understand that this project is by its very nature a huge undertaking. We have chosen to make clean design, good usability and solid implementation of features our highest priority goals and we have already successfully, albeit slowly, pursued that road for several years. In order to speed up the progress of our development efforts we open up the project to the general public and we hope to attract the support of many developers and users, bringing the project forward faster. [Less]

A small utility to aid multiplatform development using the Houdini Development Kit (HDK). Basically it's for when hcustom and the included makefiles don't cut it ...

This is a basic set of classes that can be used to explore Mental Ray shader writing. I've created it as a way to share whatever I come up with while learning more about Mental Ray. Based on the ... [More] concepts and code snippets from the book: www.writingshaders.com, except in C++ instead of C. [Less]

ShaderBucket is a palette manager for renderman shaders. It provides an XML schema for specifying palettes and shader interfaces.

The Houdini Ocean Toolkit (HOT)DescriptionThe HOT is a collection of dso’s and an OTL for rendering deep ocean waves using the algorithms of Jerry Tessendorf described in the SIGGRAPH 2004 course ... [More] notes. The dso’s implement a SOP for displacing geometry and VEX functions functions for use in various Houdini contexts. The OTL contains a VOP that wraps the vex function. The latest source and binary distrubitons are available in the Downloads section. The latest release is 1.0rc8the hotbin_*.zip contained the wrong dll files due to a bug in the pavement script that builds the distribution, sorry people. Recent sightingsRising Sun Pictures used the HOT on Terminator Salvation, see Gregory Yepes's web site. Sam Loxton's Ocean Storm. Some blender guys have ported the code to C. It looks like this XSI guy has also used the HOT as a base. Framestore used the HOT in the award winning Smirnoff Sea commercial - cool! Ocean whirlpool WIP on the forum. [Less]

Command line tool that converts between Naiad (www.exoticmatter.com) .emp files and Houdini (www.sidefx.com) .bgeo files.

An ebuild for the Apprentice version of the Houdini Suite from Side Effects software. Note that this project is a third-party effort and thereby is not endorsed, subsidized, related to, or supported by Side Effects Software, Inc.

The Houdini Character Development Kit is a set of tools (scripts / HDA's) that help and make easier the task of rigging characters.

This is the open source code for misc tools and scripts for python, max, maya, houdini, etc.