Houdini Indie

Houdini Indie System Requirements

Published by SideFX


What we love

1. Houdini Indie gives you access to the Game Development Toolset, a collection of over 100 shelf tools and assets designed to speed up game dev workflows.

2. The modeling tools in Houdini Indie make it easier to create good surface topology for use in games and VR, and can be used interactively in the viewport or procedurally in the Network editor.

3. The terrain system in Houdini Indie lets you layer and edit terrain easily with tools such as procedural noise, heightfields, erosion, and paint and mask out areas directly.

4. Houdini Indie provides you with a procedural pipeline-in-a-box where all the steps needed to set up a model or game level are represented by networks of nodes.

5. There is also Houdini Engine plug-ins for Autodesk® Maya® and Autodesk® 3ds Max.® Your Houdini Indie license will let you work with these plug-ins on your computer while your teammates use the free Houdini Engine Indie to load Houdini Digital Assets into host applications.

6. From Bullet Rigid Body destruction, to Pyro FX fire and smoke, to sand and snow, to FLIP fluid liquids, Houdini Indie empowers you to create bigger, more explosive visual effects.

7. With Houdini Indie, you can rely on a built-in, physically-based rendering solution called Mantra to render out cinematics or to bake out texture maps from high-res to low-res meshes.

8. Networks can be wrapped up into Digital Assets which can be loaded into the Unity® or Unreal Engine® game engines using the Houdini Engine plug-ins.

9. The operations are very similar to image compositing, so terrain artists will find the Houdini Indie workflow familiar.

10. Whether you are modeling by hand or working procedurally, Houdini Indie helps you create large models faster than ever before.

11. Choose from a wide variety of polygon, NURBS, and Subdivision Surface modeling tools and use procedural techniques to set up instancing that ensures an efficient deployment of geometry in your game.


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System Requirements and Specifications

Windows PC Requirements

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 (64 bit) Windows 8.1 Windows 8 Windows 7 SP1 (future versions of Houdini will not be supported on Win7) Windows Server (any version) is NOT supported.
  • Processor: Intel or AMD x64 CPU with SSE 4.2 required. Houdini 17.0 will not run on a system with an instruction set lower than SSE 4.1.
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: A GL4.0 compliant graphics card is required. GL3.3 cards will have missing features and lower GL versions will not run Houdini 17 at all. 4GB VRAM or more is required. Less than this can result in display errors such as blank windows. High DPI displays (4K, 5K) or multiple monitors require a minimum of 4GB. Graphics card must support OpenCL version 1.2. The OptiX Denoiser requires a Kepler or later Nvidia GPU (K, P, M, V prefixes). - NVidia GeForce GPUs: 390.77 or higher (don't use 376.xx - you'll have slow performance and crashes) - NVidia Quadro GPUs: 390.77 or higher (don't use 376.xx - you'll have slow performance and crashes) - AMD: 17.Q3 or higher - Intel 10.18.10.3958 or higher.
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: 3 Button mouse required. Scroll wheel used where present. Tablet recommended for Houdini's brush-based tools.

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS:
  • Processor: 8 GB or higher and 64GB strongly recommended for fluid simulations
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: It is VERY important that you install the latest driver for your graphics card. Failing to do so may result in display issues and/or slow performance
  • Storage: 8 GB available space

Macintosh Requirements

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: OSX 10.10.2
  • Processor: 64-bit
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel cards are NOT supported on OSX.
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Storage: 8 GB available space

Linux Requirements

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Can my PC Run Houdini Indie? How to check your PC Specifications


Find specs for all Windows versions:


    Windows 10 and Windows 11 specifications:
  • Step 1. Open Windows Explorer, locate "This PC".
  • Step 2. Right-click "This PC" icon and select the "Properties" option.

  • Windows 8 specifications:
  • Processor, memory and operating system: Click the Windows Start Button » Settings Tile » PC and Devices » PC Info.

  • Windows 7 specifications:
  • Step 1. Right-click the “Computer” icon to open the menu » Select the "Properties" option.


Troubleshooting: What to do if you run into problems

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