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Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including:
Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including:
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Houdini Overview
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.