Awesome Houdini

A collection of awesome Free/Open Source things regarding the SideFx Houdini ecosystem.

Sourced from Github, Gumroad, OdForce, and miscellaneous google drive links. I've tried not to include assets which can also be found on Orbolt.

Note that not all assets may be compatible with your houdini licensce/version.

Table of Contents 📚

• Assets
  • General Purpose Asset Libraries/Toolboxes
  • Geo/Editing
    • Generate
    • Edit
  • AI
  • Kinefx
  • Advanced Math
  • Misc/Util
  • Pipeline/Pdg
  • Rendering/Materials
  • Solver/Sim
  • Wrangles
  • Environments
  • Volumes
  • Cops
• Learning Materials
  • HIPs
  • Vex
  • Scripts and Development Tools
  • Youtube/Vimeo Channels
  • Blogs/Personal Sites

• Assets

  • General Purpose Asset Libraries/Toolboxes

    • qLab
    • SideFx Labs
    • DASH
    • LV-Tools
    • YingQ for Houdini
    • HoudiniHPro
    • MCLabs
    • DMNK-tools
    • Nagamochi
    • nLib
    • Openfirehawk Houdini Tools
    • Houdini Utility Thread
    • FeELib for Houdini
    • Bento
    • BeeHou
    • Houdini-Toolbox
    • Aelib
    • Hammer
    • SDMTools
    • Houdini-tools
    • M-Hda-Collections
    • HDK_DSO
    • thi-ng/Houdini
    • hipie
    • qq
    • egLib
    • Houdini Extensions
    • Houdini Scripts
    • Richard C Thomas Assorted Tools
    • hipCollection
    • LaidLawFx
    • Nama-Gatsuo HDA Sketches
    • Nikla Rosenstein Houdini Library
    • aa_tools
    • JDB Houdini Toolkit
    • mifthtools
    • Zenv
    • Gt Houdini Assets
    • HDA-s-for-gamedev-Unreal-engine
    • Open Plack HDAs
    • sipiLib
    • LcLLib
    • KDBRA Tools
    • Chordee HDA Collection
    • WesLib
    • HurdFX
    • HoudiniGuLib
    • CustomHoudiniPlugins

  • Categories

    • Geo/Editing

      • Generate

        • GSOPS Gaussian Splat Operators for SideFX Houdini
        • VFX Fractal Tookit Set of tools for generating fractal and generative art.
        • Isogrid Houdini SOP voxel-based generative geometry
        • ae_SVG SVG Importer and Exporter for Houdini
        • kitbash-parser 'Kitbash Parser' is a kit of tools to work with kitbash packs in Houdini.
        • Wire Builder HDA Procedural wire builder asset
        • linewriter Linewriter quickly creates lines of text geometry in Houdini.
        • Draw Stroke
        • FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini The Fractal Flame Algorithm, FLAM3 for SideFX Houdini
        • Houdarcs Houdini Architecture Assets
        • Tech Gear HDA Generate detailed cylindrical pieces. Can be useful to generate gears , bolts or details for sci-fi assets.
        • Cards to Curves SOP-level HDA to extract guide curves from hair cards.
        • Jelly Maker An HDA that turns any object or fluid sim into a jelly with bubbles in it.
        • Brick Tunnel HDA
        • Poly Expand 3D
        • Gear Builder
        • Kerning Tool Kerning typography in Houdini.
        • Curve to Rope Tool
        • GPattern Houdini plugin for seamlessly tiling geometry on the surface of another geometry.

      • Edit/Process

        • Hard Gun Box cutter like hard surface modeling tool kit
        • Microbot VDB Painter mbPainter for Sidefx Houdini is an Artist Friendly Set of Tools for interactive Manipulation of OpenVDB (www.openvdb.org) SDF Volumes.
        • Camera Culling Tool The Culling Tool takes in geometry and culls it based on a camera view, either on a single frame or a range of frames; with extra options such as the ability to keep objects based on connectivity.
        • Houdini Plugin for Mesh Reparation An artist-centered tool to repair meshes with holes. Such holes are filled with coherent, context-aware new patches with correct topology and microsurface detail. This tool is packaged as a Houdini Digital Asset, making a user-friendly, integrated plugin for Mesh Reparation.
        • Inspect Node Data SOP-level HDA for storing, retrieving, and inspecting parameters from nodes.This node uses a Dictionary Attribute to store parameter data from the Attribute from Parameters SOP and retrieve it for inspection. This is useful for storing data about how a cache was generated when wedging values.
        • Wrap Defromer The wrap deformer provides an alternative approach to Houdinis point deform. The wrap deformer will search for proximity to the driver meshes closest position on the primitive surface and interpolates from the full surface matrix of their respective points.
        • PCA Dejitter The PCA Dejitter Node allows you to Remove Jitter from an animated Geometry using Principal Component Analysis.
        • Houdini Principal Curvature A Houdini DSO that extracts the minimal and maximal principal curvature directions from geometry.
        • Houdini Transform Matcher A Houdini DSO that extracts the transform between two sets of points.
        • Blend Geo Blend geometry with a displaced version of it. It has the option of combining masks and setting a range/falloff from those mask.
        • Phong Deformer SOP implementing phong deformation
        • Texture Stamp Interactive texture stamping & projection tool for Houdini 20
        • Skin Slide Deformer HDA for reducing artifcats associated with deforming skin meshes

    • AI

      • Stable Houdini Stable Diffusion Houdini Toolset
      • MLOPS Machine Learning Toolset for Houd