Houdini Engine Becomes Free for Unreal and Unity

SideFX makes Houdini Engine free for commercial Unreal Engine 4 and Unity projects, enabling procedural assets without engine licence fees.

Archive republication: This article was originally published on 26 February 2021. It has been translated into English and lightly updated for clarity while preserving the original reporting and context.

Houdini Engine

SideFX made Houdini Engine for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity available free for commercial use.

The change allowed teams working on commercial projects to deploy procedural assets created in Houdini inside Unreal Engine and Unity without paying for the engine plug-in licence.

Further Information

SideFX Art Director Jerome Hereng discussed the change in the official announcement. Verify current licensing, host versions and Houdini Digital Asset compatibility and test cooking and packaging before production use.