Houdini Niagara Plugin

Houdini is built from the ground up to be a procedural system that empowers artists to work freely, create multiple iterations and rapidly share workflows with colleagues. Houdini and its breakthrough procedural based technology has been recognized four times by the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences and has been used in countless video games, movies and TV shows. With many tools for working with and manipulating particles, Houdini is the ideal tool for creating particle FX for use in Unreal’s Niagara Visual Effects System.

The plug-in brings point cache data saved out as a custom JSON file into Niagara along with attributes such as age, life, id and color. These point caches can be static or animated point clouds created using procedural modeling techniques or using Particle, FLIP Fluid or Rigid Body simulation tools. You can even export points from Houdini’s crowd system to combine Crowd simulations with vertex animation tools.

With these powerful techniques combined with a rich data interface for importing and processing important attributes into Niagara, this plug-in is a must have for creating Realtime FX for your games.

Please note that a Houdini or Houdini Indie license is required to export the point cache files. Houdini Indie is an affordable product available for indie gamedevs and provides all the tools needed to use this plug-in to export to Niagara. 

Download and Purchase Houdini: https://www.sidefx.com/download/