What are the commercial versions about then?

There may be some other things to consider, which can be read in their complete End User License Agreement.

Houdini Apprentice does not work with third party renderers.Īs far as learning 3D new software, it doesn’t get much more straightforward than that.

It is restricted to 1280x720 when rendering.

Houdini Apprentice uses its own file format for saving scenes and assets.

Houdini Digital Assets created in Apprentice can not be used with Houdini Engine or Houdini Engine Indie.

Houdini Apprentice cannot be used in the same pipeline as commercial versions of Houdini.

Use of Houdini Apprentice is limited to following: The license terms are really straight forward too. Apprentice lets you save to disk and render out with a word mark. With Houdini Apprentice, you have access to virtually all of the features of the award-winning Houdini FX to develop your skills and work on personal projects. Houdini Apprentice is a free version of Houdini FX which can be used by students, artists and hobbyists to create personal non-commercial projects. Seriously, read it straight from the horse’s mouth: You get access to everything in Houdini FX, which is like Cinema 4D Studio. There must be a catch to learning Houdini for free? Features of the application a user can’t access? Something? Houdini Education is meant for universities and colleges to purchase at an extremely reduced fee for their labs. As a solo artist, or small studio, you can focus on that to begin. Unlike Maxon where you have to pay-to-play, the Houdini Apprentice licence is free. The other two are for educational purposes Houdini Education and Houdini Apprentice. Similarly though, only counting commercial versions of Houdini, there are four. Similar to Maxon’s four (five if you count Lite) versions of Cinema 4D, SideFX has a lot of Houdini to choose too.

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