Houdini FX combines superior performance and dramatic, ease-of-use to deliver a powerful and accessible 3D experience to VFX artists creating feature films, commercials or video games. With its procedural node-based workflow, Houdini lets you create more content faster to reduce timelines and enjoy enhanced flexibility in all your creative tasks. Houdini is perfect for Visual Effects artists and technical directors with its particle and dynamics environment. Houdini FX includes a complete toolset for studios that want to use it for other tasks such as lighting, animation or procedural modeling.
CLOUDS & VOLUMES | The Cloud FX tools offer an artist-friendly way of building, sculpting and rendering cloud formations. This workflow utilizes sparse volume sculpting tools created as part of the OpenVDB open source initiative.
ANIMATION | Houdini has an animator-friendly workflow which includes a channel editor, dope sheet and interactive timeline. Set keyframes on any parameter or use Houdini’s Advanced Motion-editing tools for even more control.
CHARACTER RIGGING | Houdini’s node-based approach fits perfectly with the working methodology of a typical character rigging TD. Characters can then be wrapped up into a single Digital Asset node and delivered to the animation team.
LIGHTING | Houdini’s lighting workflow provides a flexible and powerful environment for managing lights, building shaders and defining the look of a shot. Environment and GI lights work well with Mantra’s physically-based rendering.
MANTRA RENDERING | With Houdini, you can rely on a robust built-in rendering solution called Mantra or create custom support for a wide variety of third party renderers. Mantra is particularly good at rendering volumes such as smoke.
COMPOSITING | Houdini includes a node-based compositor which is perfect for creating slap comps. Lighters can test out render passes before sending plates to artists working with other compositing apps.
Houdini FX:
PARTICLES | Whether you are creating dust and debris or a flocks of birds, the particle tools in Houdini let you define a clear set of rules using a simple node network made up of sources, forces, attractors and collision objects.
This is a multi-package portable. I can add updates/plugins via .svm files, just request plugins or notify me about new updates.
Files:
Main pack: - SideFX Houdini 18.0 Portable.exe = main program and data file - *.exe = other launchers for all included apps (see pic) Optional pack: - LaubwerkPlants.svm = Laubwerk Plants Kit plugin - the same file also works with my Portable 3dsMax, Maya, Cinema 4D, SketchUp. - houdini18_vray4.svm = V-Ray plugin for Houdini - houdini18_unreal.svm = Houdini Engine for Unreal 4.23.1/4.24/4.25. This is a data file for Houdini Portable. Note that Houdini Engine for Unity 5.6+ / Maya 64-bit / 3ds Max 2017+ is already included in main exe.
Addons/packs:
Sandbox folder example: "\Sandbox\Houdini 18\roaming\modified\@[email protected]\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.0.460\bin\"
Portable features:
- No installation required
- No Admin rights needed
- 100% Offline, completely safe to use, no firewall needed
- Sandbox folder containing modified settings, delete to reset
- Just run it and enjoy!
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| Version | Format | Size ? | Download ? | |
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v18.0 | ||||
Portable release | ||||
Houdini |
18.0.460 |
Portable |
2.8 GB | |
Houdini Engine |
18.0.460 |
.svm |
610 MB | |
V-Ray plugin |
4.30.03 |
.svm |
397 MB | |
Laubwerk Plants Kit |
1.0.33 |
.svm file |
558 MB | |
Setup release | ||||
Houdini |
18.0.460 |
Setup |
1.4 GB | |
V-Ray plugin |
4.30.03 |
Setup |
227 MB | |
Laubwerk Plants Kit |
1.0.33 |
Setup |
558 MB | |
v17.5 | ||||
Houdini |
17.5.360 |
Portable |
2.39 GB | |
Setup |
1.1 GB | |||
v16.5 | ||||
Houdini |
16.5.496 |
Portable |
2 GB | Uploadrar Rapidgator Turbobit |
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Updated to v18.0 and added V-Ray + Laubwerk 🥳
Awesome update! thank you so much.
But i have a little issue.. when i open up the license manager, it asks me to login, and if i go in the file menu, the option to manually enter the keys is grayed out and cannot be clicked.. any solutions? I’m running w10 version 2004
Same os for me and works well! Try disabling internet for a minute (even though it’s already disabled into the portable) and also try cleaning previous licensing you might have used in houdini 17.5… check disk and registry as well
Hi, i tested in a fresh VM, it does work well!
in my main pc i tried returning the old houdini 17.5 licenses, but that requires internet connection. i tried deleting the sandbox directory, and i also tried to see left overs file on the hdd and registry, but i cant find any.. do you have any idea where they would be? is a specific folder/registry path? thank you!
You see there must be something somewhere… did you try the hidden folders c:/programdata and /user/appdata?
Solution For me :
1. Run License Administrator.
RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR OR YOUR LICENSES WILL NOT BE WRITABLE (the menu doesn’t allow for enter licenses manually.)
Interesting, thanks. It does work without admin on my pc and on a clean w10 btw, but thanks for the trick 🙂
Hey mr. Jhonson can i run it on a none restricted pc and later copy the whole file to an admin restricted Computer ? Will it be possible that it will work?
I’m able to use it perfectly without it asking for admin so you can try
where houdini.evr path?
thanks
I dunno what’s that..?
About licensing ? Im trying to follow along in the note but the botton for manually enter key cant be selected its grayed out what should i do?
see Anthony comments
Okays, by the way, maybe its about the write access? The license administrator say that the machine i use does not have write access to the license server? Any idea?
No idea, it works in a fresh w10 installation, it’s something in your pc that’s causing this but no clue :/ try stuff…
My license manager let me manually enter after I restarted the exe with admin rights. It’s always a risk to give admin rights like this, so it’s up to you if you want to try.
Btw thx for your work House, this one runs well so far. First run takes very long due to having to wait for Windows prompts but subsequently it opens much faster
Welcome 😀
Best release!
Thanks again!
Welcome 💙
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None of your links are working ! I have tried all of them !
Just tried and they all work, check FAQ page for download instructions
THanks so much for this!
welcome!
grazie per questi portables e ti garantisco che nel nominare i file sei veramente un genio 😀
Ahahhaha grazie a te, non sai quanto mi diverto! 😆
cant download.pls
cant open binbox
hey sorry, binbox has troubles sometimes, tey changing browser, if still issues send me an email i’ll give you links