Houdini Apprentice - a free version of Houdini FX

[micheus]

For those who likes to play with interesting tools just for fun...

"Houdini Apprentice is a free version of Houdini FX which can be used by students, artists and hobbyists to create personal non-commercial projects. It has a limited render size, a watermark on renderings and other minor limitations."

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The Indie version is very cheap compared to the commercial version.

[nemyax]

Importantly, file output is fully functional. And version 14 introduced some poly modelling enhancements.