Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including: Created by Side Effects Software Inc. Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including:* Modeling – All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBs/Bezier Curves/Patches & Trims, Metaballs* Animation – Keyframed animation and raw channel manipulation (CHOPs), motion capture support* Particles* Dynamics – Rigid Body Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Wire (Curve) Dynamics, Cloth Simulation* Lighting – node-based shader authoring, lighting and re-lighting in an IPR viewer* Rendering – supporting a variety of renderers; besides Mantra: Renderman, mental ray…and many more features….
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