HOUDINI MASTER IS THE MOST COMPLETE VISUAL EFFECTS AND ANIMATION SOLUTION AVALIABLE.

This award-winning and production-proven product handles the most challenging shots without

the need for additional plug-ins or an army of programmers. Film production facilities can rely

Operating System
Windows: Tested on Windows XP and Vista (32 and 64 bit)
Mac OS X: Requires 64-bit Intel-based Mac with OS X v10.5 Leopard

Memory

• 1 GB required
• 2-4 GB+ recommended
• Multiprocessor systems should be configured with additional RAM
• Houdini supports multiprocessor compositing and rendering

Processor

• Recent generation 32 or 64-bit AMD or Intel processor (requires SSE or higher)
• Houdini supports MMX and Streaming SIMD (SSE2) where present

Disk Space

• 500 MB required for installation

Input Devices

• 3 Button mouse required
• Scroll wheel used where present
• Wacom tablet recommended for Houdini's brush-based tools

Graphics Card

• Workstation-class OpenGL graphics card (such as NVidia and ATI)
• Graphic Card drivers: NVidia: 169 or higher, ATI: 8.44 or higher.
• Minimum resolution: 1024 x 768; Recommended resolution: 1920 x 1200 (widescreen)
• Color depth of 16-bit+ required with 32-bit+ (“true color”) recommended
• Requires support for OpenGL 1.2 or later; Takes advantage of OpenGL 2.0 support if available
• Hardware-accelerated OpenGL required for optimum performance
• Performance may suffer with complex scenes on non-workstation graphics cards and on laptops
• Integrated Intel graphic cards are not supported
• Houdini does not require support for Direct3D (all viewports and interfaces use OpenGL)

Other

• Sound card and speakers/headset required for audio
• Class C network (TCP/IP) recommended for floating licenses
• Network support required for offline simulation, batch processing and rendering
• Internet browser required for connection to www.sidefx.com (Houdini Exchange and Forum)
• Video encoder required for creating AVI/QT/etc.

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