Free Houdini HDA: qLib Procedural Asset Library with Example Scenes (qLab)
The qLib Team, VFX professionals from several studios, develops qLib on GitHub as a procedural asset library for SideFX Houdini.
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HDAs for Houdini: 20 free files to bring into your own work, each with notes on what it contains and what it needs, linked to its original source.
20 free project files
Free Houdini HDA: MOPs Motion Graphics Toolkit with Example Scenes (Henry Foster)
Henry Foster develops and maintains MOPs (Motion OPerators) on GitHub as a motion graphics toolkit for Houdini that manipulates many copies of objects by leveraging packed primitives.
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Free Houdini HDA: ez wetmap Copernicus Wet Map Baker with Example Files (evanrudefx)
evanrudefx shares ez wetmap, a set of Houdini HDAs for creating wet maps, on Gumroad and Patreon. This version is a Copernicus-based left-to-right process that bakes a wetmap texture within seconds, and the older…
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Free Houdini HDA: Aelib SOP Asset Library with Example Scenes (Nick Taylor)
Nick Taylor (Aeoll) shares Aelib on GitHub as a library of Digital Assets, tools and scripts for SideFX Houdini. The otls folder holds about 100 SOP-level HDAs grouped into creators, deformers, modifiers, curve tools…
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Free Houdini 20.5 HDA: KTT Accessories Pack for Procedural Road Networks and Terrain (Samuel Krug)
Samuel Krug presents creating procedural road networks with a free Houdini tool and links KTT for Houdini: Accessories, which he describes as a free HDA pack.
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Free Houdini 21 HDA: Neural Terrain Paint and ML Train Terrain with Example Scene (Cody Spahr)
Cody Spahr shares this project on the SideFX Content Library to show machine learning workflows for heightfields in Houdini 21.
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Free Houdini HDA: zenv Procedural Environment Modeling Tools with Example Scenes (CorvaeOboro)
CorvaeOboro shares zenv on GitHub as a work-in-progress set of Houdini HDA tools focused on procedural modeling of environments.
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Free Houdini HDA: Collect File Tool for Project Backup (Yechan Cho)
Yechan Cho shares a free Houdini HDA that collects project files when a job is being wrapped up and links it on Google Drive.
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Free Houdini HDA: Procedural Lighthouse Generator (Houdini Enjoyer)
Houdini Enjoyer shares a free lighthouse generator HDA as a thank-you for reaching 100 subscribers and links it in a Google Drive folder.
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Free Houdini HDA: Procedural Crystal Cave for Houdini Engine in Unreal (Misa Motion)
Misa Motion (Misagh Saboori) shares a procedural environment modeling tool made with Houdini Engine and Unreal Engine that builds a crystal cave.
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Free Houdini 19.5 HDA: Simshot Weapon Shot and Impact Tool with Example Scene (SpongeFX)
SpongeFX shares Simshot 1.0 on GitHub as a Houdini digital asset for building scenes that emulate shots from different types of weapons, with effects on impact.
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Free Houdini HDA: Point Infection Solver v1.3 with Demo Scene (Ivy M)
Ivy M demonstrates version 1.3 of a point infection solver HDA and links the files on GitHub for free download. The solver spreads an infection over geometry to generate wet map, burning, spreading, footprint, mark and…
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Free Houdini 20.5 HDA: Easy Flipbook for OBJ and Solaris (Danny Laursen)
Danny Laursen shares two HDAs that make rendering flipbooks easier, one for the OBJ context and one for Solaris, and gives a short tutorial on each.
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Free Houdini HDA: Wave Function Collapse Hextile Solver with Example Scene (Proceduralit)
Mohsen Tabasi (Proceduralit) shares a wave function collapse solver for hexagon tiles and offers both the Houdini and Unreal Engine projects on GitHub.
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Free Houdini 19.5 HDA: Easy Displacement Bake with Example Scene (Aaron Smith)
Aaron Smith shares Easy Displacement Bake on GitHub as a one-click HDA for baking displacement maps from geometry in Houdini 19.5.
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Free Houdini HDA: Volume Compute Range for Visualizing Scalar and Vector Volumes (arctiem)
arctiem shares Volume Compute Range, a Houdini HDA for visualizing scalar and vector volumes. The tool computes value ranges, slices volumes, visualizes velocities and can display a volume as points or polygons, and the…
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Free Houdini HDA: Camera Frustum Cull with Occlusion and Depth Culling (WaffleBoyTom)
WaffleBoyTom shares CameraFrustumCullHDA on GitHub, an HDA that culls points outside of a camera frustum after the path to a camera is added and padding is set.
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Free Houdini HDA: Instancing Setup from the DomLib Toolset (Dominik Lange)
Dominik Lange showcases his free Instancing Setup node, an HDA that makes assigning a large number of instances to points easier, and links it in his DomLib collection on GitHub.
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Free Houdini 19.5 HDA: Unreal Starter Kit of 13 Procedural Game Art Tools (Simon Verstraete)
Simon Verstraete made the Houdini Engine for Unreal Starter Kit, shared on the SideFX Content Library and updated for UE5, as a set of procedural game art tools for use inside the Unreal editor.
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Free Houdini 18 HDA: WFC Level Generation with Example Scene (Paul Ambrosiussen)
Paul Ambrosiussen shares this project on the SideFX Content Library to show how the WaveFunctionCollapse algorithm can be extended with Houdini's built-in tools for level generation, using PDG to parallelize content…
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