“Side Effects Software… today announced the successful port of
its world-class 3D animation software to the Linux operating
system. Side Effects Software, who announced their intention to
adopt Linux at NAB’99, will be the first major 3D animation company
to show their product on the platform. The Linux version of Houdini
4.0, is being shown at SIGGRAPH’99 at the Evans & Sutherland
booth… Hardware technology from Evans & Sutherland and
software technology from Xi Graphics played a pivotal role in the
successful port of Houdini to Linux.”
“Side Effects Software began beta testing of the
non-interactive portions of Houdini in May, however
workstation-class graphics support for Linux was not available
until recently. … Houdini will be demonstrated on a generic
Intel-based workstation running Red Hat Linux 6.0. The EV 2 version
of Xi Graphics’ Accelerated-X 3D/OGL technology an X-windows server
with hardware accelerated OpenGL 1.1.1 support.”
“Beta testing of Houdini 4.0 is scheduled to begin this fall
with a more precise shipping date to be released in that period.
The Linux version of the product will have the same look, feel and
feature set as the Irix and Windows NT versions. Mantra, Houdini’s
photorealistic renderer, will be available on Linux at the same
time.”