Free Houdini 22 HIP: Transform Pieces in LOPs (the point and prim)
This free Houdini 22 tech-demo file comes from the point and prim, made for a live demo on recreating the SOP Transform Pieces workflow inside Solaris.
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Free Houdini 22 HIP: 3 Ways to Relight Gaussian Splats (Copernicus)
Hallam's Echo Chamber released this free Houdini 22 scene alongside a tutorial on relighting Gaussian splats with the new nodes in Houdini 22.
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Free Houdini 22 HIP: Heightfields on 3D Objects, Copernicus (Entagma)
Entagma's Christopher Kopic shares this free Houdini 22 project file from his Heightfields on 3D Objects tutorial. It combines the Copernicus Adjacency and Heightfield workflows, with some node modding, so that…
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Free Houdini 22 HIP: Metal Container RBD Material Fracture (SideFX)
Metal Container RBD is a free Houdini 22 scene by Yash Deshmane, published in the SideFX Content Library. It demonstrates metal fracturing with RBD Material Fracture 4.0, using proxy geometry and constraints for primary…
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Free Houdini HIP: Animate Gaussian Splats with APEX (SOP Cemetery)
SOP Cemetery released these free Houdini scene files with a tutorial on rigging and animating Gaussian splats through a proxy-deformation workflow.
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Free Houdini HIP: Stylized Pyro Wind Tunnel Setup (CG Artist Academy)
CG Artist Academy offers this free Houdini project file from their Pyro Wind Tunnel tutorial. The scene builds a stylized wind-tunnel effect: point-based smoke emission rasterized with Volume Rasterize Attributes, a…
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Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: Curve-Driven RBD Fracture Reveal (Ali Imran)
Muhammad Ali Imran shares this free Houdini 20.5 .hip file with his art-direction tutorial on RBD fracture reveals. A curve drives and progressively reveals the breaking pattern in a Bullet-based RBD simulation, giving…
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Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: Vellum Peel Effect for Beginners (Ali Imran)
This free Houdini 20.5 file by Muhammad Ali Imran comes from a beginner tutorial on creating a peel effect with Vellum. It shows a thin, flexible film, wrapper or protective layer peeling away naturally, covering the…
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Free Houdini HIP Files: Mardini 2026 Daily Challenge Scenes (BOOTH)
This collection of Houdini scene files was made by the Japanese creator 雑貨屋 ちかみち for SideFX's Mardini 2026 daily challenge.
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Free Houdini HIP: Snowfall Particle Sim Template (Sergi Key)
Sergi Key shares this free Houdini template project file for a falling-snow effect, presented in a short showcase video rather than a step-by-step tutorial.
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Free Houdini HIP: Abstract Volume Trails Effect (CG Artist Academy)
CG Artist Academy provides this free Houdini project file from their abstract volume trails tutorial. The effect starts with a POP Network that generates particle trails, explores several approaches for different looks…
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Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: Scale Geometry along Normals (medianky, BOOTH)
This small free Houdini 20.5 example by medianky accompanies a Japanese Qiita tips article on scaling geometry along its normals.
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Free Houdini 21 HIP: New APEX Rigging Features, Pigeon Rig (Entagma)
Magnus Møller of Entagma shares this free Houdini 21 scene from the New in Houdini 21: APEX tutorial. It tours the APEX rigging features added in Houdini 21, demonstrated on Entagma's pigeon character, and shows how the…
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Free Houdini HIP: RBD Procedural LOP in Solaris (the point and prim)
The point and prim offers this free Houdini file alongside a short video on the RBD Procedural LOP in Solaris. The LOP is the USD equivalent of Transform Pieces for heavy RBD simulations, and the scene shows how to…
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Free Houdini 21 HIP: 2D Color Explosion, COP Pyro Solver (SideFX)
Color Explosion is a free Houdini 21 scene by Alexandre Tamisier from the SideFX Content Library. It builds a 2D pyro explosion with the GPU-accelerated COP Pyro solver in Copernicus, converting POP-sourced emission…
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Free Houdini Beginner HIP File: Procedural Branch to Solaris Render
This free Houdini project file supports a beginner introduction video titled Want to learn Houdini? Start Here; the creator's name is not listed in the catalog.
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Free Houdini 21 HIP: MPM Sponge Squish with Foam (Misa Motion)
Misa Motion shares this free Houdini 21 .hip file from a tutorial on squeezing a sponge. An animated hand compresses the sponge while the MPM solver handles the soft-body deformation, and foam is added on top for a wet…
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Free Houdini 21 HIP: MPM Solver Soft-Serve Ice Cream (Misa Motion)
This free Houdini 21 .hip file by Misa Motion comes from a beginner tutorial on soft-serve ice cream with the MPM solver.
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Free Houdini HIP: Mercury Droplets on Cloth with Vellum (Misa Motion)
Misa Motion offers this free Houdini .hip file from a beginner tutorial on a mercury effect built with Vellum. Mercury-like droplets roll and interact across a cloth surface, and the video explains almost every node in…
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Free Houdini HIP: FLIP Surface Tension Demystified Setup (Vu Pham)
Vu Pham's showcase of realistic trickling rivulets, droplets and wetness demonstrates what the FLIP solver can do at any scale, combining surface tension, tiny droplets, procedural rivulets and a sim-to-meshing pipeline…
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Free Houdini 21 Project File: Gaussian Splatting with Vellum (Entagma)
Entagma's Christopher Kopic shares this free Houdini 21 project file from the New in Houdini 21: Gaussian Splatting tutorial.
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Free Houdini HIP: Spider-Man Web Lightning FX Scene (BlueZi)
BlueZi shares this free Houdini scene from a personal project recreating the web lightning effect seen in the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 cinematic.
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Free Houdini HIP: CG Ocean in Solaris with Karma XPU (Sergi Key)
Sergi Key provides this free Houdini scene for a large CG ocean rendered with Karma XPU, shown in a showcase video rather than a tutorial.
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Free Houdini HIP: Molotov Cocktail Pyro Fire Setup (DAMIDIGITAL)
DAMIDIGITAL offers this free Houdini project file from a nearly three-hour Molotov cocktail tutorial. The build goes through bottle modeling, a cloth setup for the rag, the liquid inside, the pyro fire simulation, and…
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Free Houdini HIP File: RBD Emitting into a Heart Mould (Zavetin)
Zavetin (Вячеслав Заветин) shares this free Houdini scene from a Russian-language tutorial on emitting RBD objects into a mould.
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Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: Endless Blossom Remake with Vellum (Entagma)
Christopher Kopic of Entagma shares this free Houdini 20.5 file, a remake of Entagma's very first tutorial, Endless Blossom.
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Free Houdini HIP: Lime Impact FLIP Splash, Karma Render (Tutorialavi)
Tutorialavi provides this free Houdini project file for a slow-motion shot of a lime smashing through a suspended sphere of water.
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Free Houdini HIP: Soda Pouring FLIP Sim with Karma XPU (Sergi Key)
Sergi Key shares this free Houdini scene for sparkling soda poured into a glass, explained in a showcase video. It covers the FLIP simulation, particle-to-mesh conversion, added bubbles, look-dev in Solaris and Karma…
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Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: POP Grains Sand Pit to C4D Octane (Ali Imran)
Muhammad Ali Imran offers this free Houdini 20.5 file from his sand pit tutorial. The scene creates a realistic sand simulation with POP Grains, then exports it to Cinema 4D for rendering with Octane, covering grain-sim…
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Free Houdini HIP: Sparse Pyro to POP Particle Advection (Tutorialavi)
Tutorialavi shares this free Houdini project file from a tutorial on driving particles with pyro. A stylized smoke burst from the Sparse Pyro solver provides the velocity field that advects a POP particle simulation…
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Free Houdini HIP: Procedural Sci-Fi City, USD Workflow (Tutorialavi)
This free Houdini project file by Tutorialavi accompanies a tutorial on building a procedural sci-fi city. It uses an instancing-based layout, Python scripting that automates the creation of USD components, and a…
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Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: Falling Books with Vellum and Solaris (SideFX)
Falling Books Using Vellum and Solaris is a free Houdini 20.5 scene by Dmitrii Vlasenko in the SideFX Content Library. It simulates a pile of falling books with Vellum cloth, then assembles and lights the shot in…
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Free Houdini HIPLC: Cracked Object Voronoi Fracture (votus1206)
This Houdini scene is a 'Cracked Object' example from votus1206's Naver blog, filed under the Houdini_예제 (Houdini examples) category.
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Free Houdini HIP: RBD Glass Destruction Tutorial Scene (Fx Guru)
Fx Guru shares this free Houdini project file from a glass destruction tutorial. The scene shatters glass with the RBD system, covering fracturing with interior faces and cracks, proxy collision geometry, and rendering…
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Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: Copernicus Mosaic Textures (DanCortesVfx)
DanCortesVfx offers these free Houdini 20.5 files from Volume IV of his Copernicus exploration series. The tutorial creates procedural mosaic textures in the Copernicus (COPs) context, starting from a SOP plate setup…
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Free Houdini HIP: Realistic House Fire with Axiom Solver (DAMIDIGITAL)
DAMIDIGITAL provides this free Houdini project file from a tutorial on simulating a realistic house fire with the Axiom GPU solver.
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Free Houdini HIP: Axiom Car Fire Breakdown with Embers (DAMIDIGITAL)
This free Houdini project file by DAMIDIGITAL accompanies a breakdown of a burning car-wreck shot simulated with the Axiom GPU pyro solver.
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Free Houdini 20.5 HIP: RBD Car Rig Car Crash Destruction (SideFX)
RBD Car Rig Car Crash is a free Houdini 20.5 scene by GurSandhu in the SideFX Content Library. It rigs a vehicle with the RBD Car Rig and Tire Deformer, including suspension, fractures the body, and simulates the crash…
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Free Houdini HIP: Neural Network in VEX by Ivan Rys (Houdini Horizon)
These free Houdini files come from Ivan Rys's Houdini Horizon talk Handcrafted AI, published on the official Houdini channel.
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Free Houdini 20 HIP: Dam Break with Vellum Grains and Water (Indyzone)
Indyzone Channel distributes this free Houdini 20 hip file with a Japanese-language tutorial on recreating a dam break. The simulation combines Vellum grains standing in for soil with a water simulation (FLIP) to depict…
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Free Houdini HIP: Popping a Soap Bubble with FLIP and Pyro (Entagma)
Entagma shares this free Houdini project file from the Popping A Soap Bubble tutorial. A Pyro spread simulation generates a pop mask that splits the bubble, and a FLIP simulation driven by that mask, with surface…
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Free Houdini HIP: Water Horse FLIP Suction Fluid RnD (Tutorialavi)
Tutorialavi offers this free Houdini project file from a Water Horse RnD showcase. The FLIP simulation uses Houdini's Suction Fluid forces to pull liquid toward a high-resolution horse mesh, producing a magical…
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIP: RBD Building Destruction (Man Who Makes Movie)
Man Who Makes Movie shares this free Houdini 19.5 hip file from the final episode of a Korean-language building destruction tutorial series.
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Free Houdini 18 Files: RBD Destruction and Fracturing (CGCircuit)
CGCircuit has made the full first volume of David Adan's Destruction series free, about 3.3 hours updated to Houdini 18, along with its example project files.
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Free Houdini 20 HIP: ONNX Inference SOP Machine Learning (Entagma)
Entagma provides this free Houdini 20 project file from a tutorial introducing the ONNX Inference SOP added in Houdini 20.
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Free Houdini HIP: Blooming Flowers with KineFX (Danny Laursen)
Danny Laursen shares these free Houdini project files with Part 1 of his Blooming Flowers series on modeling, rigging and animating a procedural flower.
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Free Houdini 20 HIP: Karma Room Map Interior Mapping Shader (Indyzone)
Indyzone Channel distributes these free Houdini 20 hip files with a three-part Japanese-language series on the Karma Room Map shader.
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIP: Vellum Simulation to Karma Render, Part 4
Model What You See offers this free Houdini 19.5 hip file with Part 4 of the channel's Vellum series. The lesson takes a Vellum simulation all the way from its initial setup through to a finished Karma render, so the…
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Free Houdini 20 HIP: Zombie Crowds with Vellum Cloth and Hair (SideFX)
Zombie Crowds is a free Houdini 20 scene by Jessica Daoud and Wuraola Fagbamiye in the SideFX Content Library. It lays out a complete zombie crowd pipeline: skeleton setup and mocap retargeting with KineFX, an…
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Free Houdini 20 HIP: Vellum Wind Shadow Cloth Demo (SideFX Library)
Wind Shadow is a free Houdini 20 demonstration scene by Andrew Muron from the SideFX Content Library. It showcases the Vellum solver's Wind Shadow feature, which lets objects occlude wind so that cloth in their lee…
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Free Houdini HIP: Setting Up Redshift AOVs in Houdini (RMA FIRE)
RMA FIRE shares this free Houdini project file from a tutorial on AOVs with Redshift. The scene sets up geometry with Redshift materials, walks through choosing AOV types, and previews the AOVs in the render view to…
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIP: Abstract Particle Flow, Redshift (Mats Nyman)
Mats Nyman provides this free Houdini 19.5 project file from his Abstract Particle Flow tutorial. Particles emitted from an initial shape are advected through a velocity field, cached and colored, then rendered in…
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIP: Python Viewer State Event Handlers (Indyzone)
Indyzone Channel distributes this free Houdini 19.5 hip file with a Japanese-language tutorial on Python viewer states. The lesson explains the event handlers that drive custom viewport interaction, showing how a Python…
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIPNC: Perfume Bottle, Hair Groom and Water (Yasuo)
Yasuo shares this free Houdini 19.5 scene from a Perfume and Hair Animation project. A procedurally modeled perfume bottle is combined with a heavy hair and fur groom of over 30 million points and a water simulation…
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Free Houdini HIP: FLIP Cosmetic Product Shot with Redshift (Kartik)
Kartik offers this free Houdini hip file from the first episode of his Houdini dailies series, a FLIP tutorial with Redshift.
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Free Houdini Files: Solaris Essentials Ep.17 MaterialX BSDFs (SideFX)
These free Houdini project files belong to the Solaris Essentials series by Adam Swaab, published on SideFX's official Houdini channel; episode 17 covers MaterialX BSDFs.
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Free Houdini HIP: Liquid Trails, Fluid Following a Path (RMA FIRE)
RMA FIRE provides this free Houdini project file from a tutorial on liquid trails. The setup makes liquid follow a designated trail, guiding the fluid along a path for trail-tracing effects, and the video explains each…
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIP: Attribute-Based Modeling Basics (Indyzone)
Indyzone Channel shares these free Houdini 19.5 hip files with part 3 of its Japanese-language series on Houdini attributes for absolute beginners.
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIP: Spaceship Rising from Desert Sand Grain Sim
This free Houdini 19.5 hip file comes from a Japanese YouTube channel devoted to USD and VFX pipeline explanations, accompanying a breakdown of a Shorts clip in which a spaceship rises out of desert sand.
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Free Houdini 19.5 HIP: 3D Pin Art with Ray and Solver SOP (Indyzone)
Indyzone Channel offers these free Houdini 19.5 hip files with a three-part live procedural modeling series on building a 3D pin-art toy.
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