OFFER!!!... SideFX Houdini 2.5 Final Win32 - First Windows Version From 1998 (Early)>>>

Comments

• Garcia

  February 2024 edited February 2024

  17 big ones Could have bought a new car for that back then... I guess 3D was still state of the art, hi tech back in the late 90's.
  
  How is the UI? It kinda scares me, just looking at it.
• BigfarT2

  February 2024

  Ooooo now that’s worth two farts 💨 must have a look at those ancient sea 🌊 scrolls 📜 and see what all the fuss is about!
  
  I see Houdini apprentice is free on their site but some older versions of it are on some cover disc I will link one ☝️ if there’s interest!
• TalkOrBell

  February 2024 edited February 2024

  UI is a bit scary but not as bad as later ones... I actually like Houdini 8 which is the last of the 'shelfless' versions...Very powerful procedural stuff... Houdini 4 was used in the first X-Man movie for the scene where the 'senator' turns into a jellyfish then bursts into water on the gurney... The earlier ones were use in 'Contact', 'Dr Dolittle' & some others...
• virtuamutan

  February 2024

  How the bloody hell did you find this! The oldest version I could ever find was 4.0. Thank you so much!
• TalkOrBell

  February 2024

  Don't know as I have had it for many years... You are welcome>>>
• floppydisk_

  July 2024

  Are you able to re-upload this somewhere? Both the gofile.io and send.cm links seem to be dead
• TalkOrBell

  July 2024

  Not a Problem BUTT!... I don't have it handy local anymore probably will hafta disk dive to get it again & I forget which bin I had put the SideFX stuff in as I had rearranged...
  
  So might not be on the soon side unless somebody else has it handier>>>>
• Garcia

  July 2024

  I had a quick look if I had it, but I didn't download it or I deleted it.
  Sorry
• TalkOrBell

  July 2024

  Well Thanks Anyway... I got a shindig to go to today I'll look tomorrow>>>
• TalkOrBell

  July 2024 edited July 2024

  Got it... Out of 44 Bins of CD-DVDs it was in first one looked into...
  
  Look to NFO for specific install instructions & make sure you can attain the required screen rez...
  
  Pass is WinWorld
  
  https://send.cm/d/1AddJ
  
  OR
  
  https://gofile.io/d/NKGZTG
  
  
  Of Interest the scene in the first X-Men Movie (2000) where the Senator is laying on the gurney then 'liquifies' was done in Houdini 4-
  
  Part 1-
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20010119103900/3dworldmag.com/inspiration/000824/xmen.frame.htm
  
  Part 2-
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20010212014627/3dworldmag.com/inspiration/000824/xmen2.body.htm
  
• Hamster2600

  August 6

  Hey, any chance you can reupload the link? Both are dead and this is the only place I could find it. I’ve been looking for this everywhere, the only other 2.5 versions I could find were either irix or DEC alpha lol
• virtuamutan

  September 14 edited September 14

  Here you go:
  
  https://gofile.io/d/GNHq3AN8
  
  or
  
  https://send.now/l0v1vc8stm9b
• TalkOrBell

  September 17

  A couple things>>>
  
  When installing this it will auto-associate any & all image & 3D formats it can possibly use so get ready to reset all that...
  
  Another is that there is an ever-ocurring error when doing some materials functions this being that there's nothing for the operation to 'chew on' as this release was ripped from a CD so the materials are all missing so it appears to 'need one in order to make one' so far have not had any luck with a workaround & finding materials for 2.5 is impossible...
• TalkOrBell

  October 11

  Peeps seem to like Houdini around here... Here's some links not for 2.5 but for mostly 4 & 5-
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20040804090009/sidefx.com:80/community/learn/characters/index.html
  
  
  Here's where some videos come back in RM format (Real Media)-
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20041230111103/sidefx.vislab.usyd.edu.au/houdini_video/