Houdini 18.5 released

Updated Houdini 18.5 has been officially released. New features include:

• A live bridge between Unity and Houdini vi session sync.
• BSP brush support in Houdini Engine for Unreal, plus PDG, World Composition support and auto-streaming tiles.
• A new services systems for faster task completion.
• Comprehensive performance monitoring.
• A Shotgun asset publishing tool .
• Topo transfer with a conformal mesh solver.
• Attribute from Pieces SOP that provides a new method to create common attribute patterns.
• Chain Sop for quickly instancing geometry along a path.
• Interactive physics brushes for Vellum cloth.
• Several Vellum fabric types ready to use.
• Faster viscous FLIP fluids.
• Interactive Pyro, a GPU accelerated minimal solver for fast prototyping.
• Pyro Burst Source SOP, a new method for sourcing and shaping complex explosions.
• Pyro rt Trail Path SOP, an artist-friendly way to shape complex explosion trails.
• New Pyro tools and shaders plus ready to use sample files.
• Mask By Feature SOP that can create a mask from geometry, shadows, AO and more.
• Scatter and Align SOP, a high-level instancing toolset.
• Solaris Render Snapshots.
• Click to target progressive rendering in Karma.
• Physical lens shaders in Karma.
• KineFX, a new foundation for procedural SOP rigging and retargeting.