Houdini 14 sneak peek

Houdini 14新功能抢先看

Houdini 14是一款电影特效合成制作软件。SideFX软件发布了一些Houdini 14制作的效果及将要发布的新功能,Houdini 14已计划在2015年1月发布。最令人印象深刻的特性之一是新的基于位置的动力学解算器,可以处理复杂的动态效果等一些令人惊异的砂效果,和柔软的物体模拟。

Houdini 14发布的一些主要新功能。

Houdini 14 是一个新项目环境设置内容目录对你所有的资产,新的动画层编辑器。Houdini 14将新的自定义Python PySide和PyQT面板,选择一个新的工作流包含预选强调和群体选择。

Houdini 14也有基于OpenVDB梳理工具为基础的艺术家,新的人群工具可以与液体相互作用和影响,有限状态机,包装代理和硬件加速的代理可以在呈现时变形。Houdini 14释放定于2015年1月15日。

Houdini 官方更新说明：

Feature List:

USER EXPERIENCE

Selection:

• Fast and accurate
• Easier access to selection modes
• Pre-selection highlighting
• Intuitive/visual group visualization and selection
• Group name preservation in modelling operations
• Persistent selection cooking - preserved after SOP cooking
• Ability to trigger selection by pressing button next to the Group input field of any SOP
• Brand new, intuitive edge-loop algorithm
  

Handles:

• New handle for Box, Grid and Sphere Tools
• Per-component highlighting
• Context-sensitive cursor
• Improved resizing heuristics
• Indirect dragging with middle mouse
• Improved viewport HUD interaction
  

Customization:

• Python panels (PySide and PyQt)
• International keyboard support (eg German, Japanese, Icelandic) for notes and text fields
• Collapsible parameter folders
• WebKit support
  

New Assets Menu:

• Create Digital Asset from Selection - automatically creates subnet for you
• New Lock/Unlock/Save options
• .hda [Houdini Digital Asset] replaces .otl [Operator Type Library] file extension
• Quick Access to Orbolt
  

Create And Set Project Menu:

• New Create and Set Project menu items on the File menu
• File > Set Project defines $JOB for file referencing
  

Learning Through Statistics:

• Versatile data collection and querying engine
• Built upon mySQL and Django
• Gives feedback on how Houdini is used to Side Effects
• Studios can direct feedback to internal server
• Customizable by studios
• Available freely on github
  

USER INTERFACE

Viewport:

• Performance: 3-10x faster playback
• Fast and accurate snapping
• Full OS X support (Open GL 3)
• Higher quality geometry display in 3D and 2D viewports
  

Data Visualization:

• Powerful new visualization architecture:
  
  • Supports all attribute types
  • Global, per scene and per node
  • Stored as spare parameters
  • HDA and render-hook friendly
  • HOM scriptable
  • Flexible filtering capabilities
  • Option to place favourites on toolbar
  • Replaces existing custom display of attributes
  • Intended to replace Guides framework
    
• Ad-hoc geometry and attribute visualization (Group-List widget in the viewport):
  
  • Inspect groups, attributes, connectivity
  • Define scope with filter expressions
  • Available in selection mode or as regular display option
    
• Simulation visualization: coloured bar on the playbar indicates cooked/cached simulation frames
  

New Color Picker:

• Added Color Wheel to the Color Editor.
  
  • LMB acts an absolute color picker based on the on screen position.
  • Holding one of the 'T' 'M' 'I', 'H' 'S' 'V' and 'R' 'G' 'B' keys down while clicking on the wheel locks down the values of some of the sliders.
  • RMB acts as a virtual relative slider on the HSV value component.
  • Holding one of the TMI, HSV or RGB keys while RMB down gives a virtual sliders on the individual sliders.
  • MMB is like RMB, but with more precise control.
  • RMB or MMB without any keys tweaks the HSV value component.
  • Also: color picking from images
    
• Added Temperature sliders the Color Editor.
  
  • The new set of sliders is called TMI for temperature, magenta and intensity
  • Also: kelvin temperature picker with real-world presets
    

GEOMETRY

UV Generaton:

• Powerful UV Flatten & Layout tool
  
  • Ideal UV relaxation via least-squares
  • Includes udim support
  • Distortion visualization in UV and 3D viewports
  • Optimal island layout algorithm
  • Interactive workflow
    
• UV Flatten tool
  
  • Fast point and vertex (boundary) selection
  • “Pin” handles for UV tweaking
  • Able to re-flatten existing UV’s
    
• New pelting options in the Pelt SOP
• High Res Checkered background in UV viewport and UV Quickshade
  

Point Scattering:

• Re-architected Scatter SOP - handles all hard cases, including concave surfaces
• Scatter in texture space for consistent points
• Spray Painting tool to scatter and orient geometry fast
  

Surfaces And Solids:

• A much more powerful version of Triangulate 2D (brand new design)
• New Solidify SOP to turn any polygonal set (with defects, etc) into a perfect solid
  
  • very useful for tetrahedralization before applying FEM solver
    

Inputs And Outputs:

• Ability to delay-load packed primitives
• New BLOSC compression for geo files (.sc extension)- 3-10 times faster than gzip
• New Output SOP similar to the one in DOPs
  
  • Enables worry-free clicking Display flags inside the network
  • Overrides Display/Render flags outside the network
  • For the first time, you can set up multiple outputs from SOP subnets
    

ANIMATION

Animation Editor:

• Redesigned and renamed
• Higher-quality curve display
• Auto-slope
• Ghosted curves
• Context menus & hotkeys
• Channel color options
  

Animation Layers:

• New, dedicated CHOPs for fully procedural control
• Simple, intuitive GUI
  

Character Picker:

• Custom python pane
• Lets animators work free from viewport nulls
  

Performance:

• Bone, capture region and null display optimizations: 10-12x
• Improved FK/FBX performance: 6.5x
• Faster Alembic playback: 3x
• Faster mocap playback: 7x
• Faster character deformation: 3x
• Faster CHOP cooking
• New, simpler toon rig - Fast Biped: 10-20x faster
  

CROWDS

Crowds use a new, very compact packed primitive type called “packed agent” that both Houdini and Mantra handle efficiently. Other useful features include terrain adaptation, look-at’s, a rich set of steering tools, crowd solver, interaction with DOPs, a starter mocap library of useful motion, sample agents, sample scene setups such as stadium crowds, and more.

Crowd Creation And Layout:

• New, efficient “packed agent” primitive type natively supported throughout Houdini, including the 3D viewport and mantra
• Enhanced FBX import of rigs and geometry
• Convenient shelf tools to bake agent motion and populate terrain with agents
• Ability to paint density of agents on terrain
• Easy creation of agent formations from geometry shapes
  

Visualization:

• Fast instancing in the viewport and in Mantra
• Fast, real-time display of large (20K agent) crowds
• Multiple display options for agents (points, packed prims, rigs, capture regions, etc)
• Adaptive LOD display
• Camera frustum culling
• GPU-accelerated deformations
• Visualization of arbitrary agent information
• Efficient mantra procedural with material overrides via new Material Stylesheets
  

Crowd Solver:

• DOP-based with designated state, trigger and transition nodes
• Allows transparent interaction of agents with dynamics environment: RBD, fluids and sand
• Efficient collision detection (using new collision-layer concept)
• Intelligent collision avoidance with other agents and with obstacles
• Terrain adaptation
• Look-at support
• Follow-path support
• Rich set of steering behaviours
• Flexible CHOP-based tools for motion blending
• Highly suitable for the simulation of large crowd sets in typical scenarios
• Easily extendable by artists thanks to open HDA implementation
• Stadium and street crowds examples on the tool shelf
  

Output:

• Bgeo, FBX and Alembic output
• Efficient mantra procedural with material overrides via new Material Stylesheets
• Arnold procedural (in the works by Solid Angle)
  

DYNAMICS

Grains/Sand Solver:

• Position-based dynamics (PBD)
• Implemented 100% in VEX: fast, inherently multithreaded, eminently parallelizable
• Built into DOPs as particle nodes, thus able to interact with all dynamic elements and forces
• Unique friction model
• Completely art-directable
• Wet & dry sand support as well as support for solids, sheets and strands (the inexpensive and fast equivalent of FEM soft bodies, cloth and respectively wires; see the “granular” tools on the shelf and the new Point Deform SOP)
• OpenCL acceleration 5-10x
• Faster particle collision (5x) thanks to OpenVDB 3.0
  

Bullet Solver:

• Up to 10-20x faster
• Multi-threaded collision detection
• Faster handling of initially overlapping objects
• Faster computation of convex hulls
• Unique BVH computation
• New RBD Grains tool for sand-like simulation
• RBD Grains work with all the existing Bullet constraints.
  

Finite Elements (FEM):

• 10-15x lower memory footprint
• better performance
• Cheaper (per substep) fracturing
• New collision algorithm
• Better fracture behaviour
• More forgiving tet-mesh construction
• Self-collision optimizations underway
• Speed and memory optimizations
• Cloth tearing feature restored
  

FLIP:

• Excellent collision behaviour with deforming geometry
• Faster (~5x) and higher-quality viscosity calculations — now uses OpenCL
• Reliable handling of extreme scales (oceans vs fishbowls)
• Smoother fluid volumes & surfaces resulting in cleaner look without loss of detail
• Much improved whitewater: volumetric foam and the ability to simulate in a distributed fashion using artist-friendly shelf tools
• Greater scalability and faster spray collisions via OpenVDB 3.0
  

Pyro FX:

• Gas Curve Force tool similar to the Particle Curve Force
• allows smoke and fire to be attracted among curve
  

Particles (POPs):

• Easier collision workflow
• New “cling” behaviour
• Greater scalability and faster collisions via OpenVDB 3.0
• Ability to drive crowds
  

Dynamics Architecture:

• DOP cache indicator on playbar
• Intelligent partially-evicted caching
• New DOP Output node
• Playback-only DOP networks
• New BLOSC compression for sim files (.sc extension) that is 3-10 times faster than gzip compression.
  

HAIR GROOMING

Grooming Tools:

• Based on OpenVDB fields (for hair creation) and Stroke SOP
• Operates on hair guides
• Fully procedural and artist controllable
• Works in conjunction with existing fur tools
• Tools include: hair creation, cutting, extending, randomizing, lifting, combing, etc
• Ability to plant hair roots at specific (eg for whiskers)
• Ability to push hair roots with brush
• Ability to comb and extend hair simultaneously
• Ability to transfer groom between geometries
• All grooming tools allow mirroring for efficient grooming performance
• Tools work both in screen space and character space
• Automatic handling of collision with skin
  

Simulation:

• Numerous performance enhancements
• Dynamic tearing
  

Rendering:

• Improved hair model with additional parameters exposed for complete artistic control
• Much faster direct rendering of hair and fur with mantra: > 5x
  

LIGHTING AND RENDERING

Mantra:

• Radically faster fur and hair rendering
• GGX lighting model support
• Separate controls for direct/indirect rays (and other per-component sampling controls)
• Procedural caching in IPR
• Significantly lower startup times
• Optimized BVH construction
• Improved pixel filtering and noise controls in general
• Support for HDA procedural rendering
• Option to render points as spheres very efficiently (faster, much less memory)
• More verbose mantra output
• Artist friendly labelling of mantra ROP parameters (“angle” becomes “roughness”, etc)
• Redesigned mantra ROP for simplicity and discoverability
• Enhanced mantra shader model
• Resolved ray-traced SSS issues
• The maximum render size for Houdini Apprentice has been raised to 1280x720
• Better documentation and example, including a very visual mantra user guide
  

Inputs And Outputs:

• Efficient loading of packed primitives (ability to delay load packed primitives: see File SOP and Crowds)
• Many Alembic I/O enhancements (eg. SOP round-tripping, user-properties, visibility info, etc)
• New BLOSC compression for ifd files (.sc extension) that is 3-10 times faster than gzip compression.
  

Material Stylesheets:

• New language/framework to allow hierarchical overrides of material/render properties on a component and sub-component basis
• The de-facto standard for crowd material assignment
• Intended to ultimately replace existing Material Overrides
  

SCRIPTING

VEX:

• Expanded support for structs and classes
• Native vector2 and matrix2 types
• Slicing notation: "hello there"[3:4] == "lo"
• Array support: sort, slice, reverse, find, append, etc
• CVEX support for array binding
• String support: [], chr, ord, slice, split, append, etc
• Group support: pcfind, xyzdist (similar to Soft’s pointLocator), etc
• Continued back-end optimizations
• new VOPs for array and string VEX functions
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