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After the major Amarok release of Houdini in February, SideFX has now released a preview of Houdini 16.5. The planned release date is November 7! Some of the features shown include…
- Motion Path Editing
- Auto-rig for 3D heads
- Improved crowd functions
- Topo-Build tools
- Polygon reduction with quad preservation
- UV layout improvements
- New noise patterns
- Single Lobe SSS
- Incompressibility of air in simulations
- Optical Flow
- Hotkey Editor
Houdini Release 16 in DP
We have repeatedly featured the software from SideFX with useful workshops, tutorials and tests in our issues. In our DP issue 03 : 2016, we took a closer look at release 16. Anyone interested in simulations with Houdini will find many tips & tricks in our simulation DP issue 04 : 2016. You can find more Houdini news here.
