I want to share Blueprint, a shareable, node-based pipeline platform I've been developing. It is currently running in active production on a 3D animated feature film.

What's different?

Most commercial pipeline tools force you into a rigid asset structure, while fully custom pipelines require massive amounts of boilerplate code to handle basic things like file analysis, path remapping, and DCC environment management.
Blueprint abstracts the boilerplate into a visual node graph without boxing you into a specific workflow. It’s designed to be a flexible foundation that wraps around your studio's existing infrastructure rather than replacing it.

Core Architecture & Capabilities

Instead of writing isolated scripts for every pipeline step, Blueprint allows you to build and visualize workflows using modular nodes:

• DCC Agnostic Core: Built to seamlessly interface with standard tools (Maya, Houdini, Blender, Unreal, Nuke) or DCC of your choice.

• Production-Proven Scale: It isn't a prototype. It is currently being used in a full-length animated feature production.

• Open & Extensible: The goal isn't to hide code behind a GUI. TDs can easily build custom nodes, plugins, expose specific parameters to artists, and hook the graph directly into custom tools. 

• Shareable: Pipeline Blueprints can be shared with vendors and satellite studios to ensure everyone follows the same production workflow. This dramatically reduces the weeks of pipeline setup, synchronization, and IT/TD overhead typically required to onboard external teams.

Why I'm Sharing This

Pipeline TDs and Software Engineers are historically burned by "magic bullet" software. I'm putting Blueprint out there because it is battle-tested enough to be torn down by peers.

I would love to get your brutal, honest feedback on the architecture, the visual UX, and whether this solves the integration headaches you face daily.

DEMO ON VIMEO

ON YOUTUBE: 

I’ve been doing some small UI / tool-related work recently and noticed I keep needing quick text formatting (uppercase, lowercase, clean naming, etc.), especially when preparing stuff for web or sharing.

I ended up making a small browser tool for it.

Nothing fancy, just quick conversions and formatting.

Curious how you guys usually handle this, do you script everything inside Houdini or use external tools for quick tasks?

to be easier on the eyes, I've created a flat dark and light theme, and thought I'd share it...

Definitely still work in progress, I've also put it on Github here: https://github.com/mruegenberg/HoudiniFlatThemes

To install, just copy the files to `houdiniX.Y/config` folder (create the config one if it doesn't exist), usually located in your home directory.

Partially based on some other themes floating around the web (e.g

UIDarkFlat.hcs

UIDarkFlat_NodeGraph.inc

UIDarkFlat_NodeGraphCommon.inc

UIFlat_basic_colors.inc

UILightFlat.hcs

UILightFlat_NodeGraph.inc

UILightFlat_NodeGraphCommon.inc

As a fx artist at my company i hear clients often asking for ai effects and cheaper timeframes. Currently we can use it in more and more but still rare cases. What are your experiences ? 

Is there a good procedural way in Houdini to:

• generate the panels

• add parametric interlocking geometry on the edges

• control number of segments

Should I build one locking unit and copy it to edges, or is there a better workflow for parametric joints?

Any tips, nodes, or example HIPs would be very helpful!

I had a presentation on our Pax Dei world generation pipeline at the Everything Procedural Conference last April.

If you're interested in large scale game world generation, procedural techniques, Houdini and Unreal, take a look!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlyt8lDx-Zk&t=5s

I'm trying to create attached animation video. But I couldn't do it with my limited knowledge. It is just for my curiosity. I wanna know how to do this really really. Everything is random or not, I don't know. Or it can be depend on Boltzmann's entropy formula as below information. If someone help me about to create this animation. I would be happy really. 

Best regards.

fyi: it is a NFT art made by PAK. On the art's description " S = k log W "

https://www.sothebys.com/en/digital-catalogues/the-fungible-collection-by-pak

https://www.niftygateway.com/itemdetail/primary/0xc7cc3e8c6b69dc272ccf64cbff4b7503cbf7c1c5/3/

Full list of features (based on what was legible in the video) here: https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/101604/

(forum doesn't accept the contents for some reason)

http://bufsoftware.com

Which I think is a brilliant idea as I dabble with Houdini myself and love it.

So here you go, have fun, would love to see some awesome things created with my humble sculpt Use it for whatever, personal, commercial. A link back to me/my channel always massively appreciated, but no obligations.

Cheers!

EoL

PS hope this is the right section of forum to post this, apologies if not.

xportPigHead_v01.fbx

xportPigHead_v01.obj

Am I right? If so, is it because of AI?


Thanks.

I'm looking for the best solution or asset to generate growing ivy for my current project. If you've used any before and have experience with this, I'd love to hear your recommendations. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Here is the only resource I found so far, but I need more options to choose the best one:
https://mcworldkit.gumroad.com/l/ivyTaming

Thanks in advance for your help!

I am new in Houdini. I try to make a ammo wooden crate using IndiePixel AmmoCrate tutorial. But apparently not all things work for me or I didn't understand how to do something. My box doesn't scale correctly on some axes and I don't know how to fix it.

Can you please help with this?