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The Node Glossary

SOP

Attribute Wrangle

The core node for writing VEX code to manipulate geometry attributes with high performance.

DOP/SOP

Vellum Solver

A unified solver for cloth, hair, grains, and soft bodies using a Position-Based Dynamics (PBD) approach.

DOP/SOP

Pyro Solver

Industry-standard solver for smoke, fire, and explosion simulations with high-fidelity sparse computation.

DOP/SOP

FLIP Solver

Hybrid particle-volume solver for large-scale liquid simulations and splashes.

DOP/SOP

RBD Bullet Solver

High-speed rigid body dynamics solver for large-scale destruction and fracturing.

SOP

KineFX Rigging

A modern, procedural approach to rigging and character motion directly in the geometry network.

SOP/COP

Copernicus Image

The new GPU-accelerated 2D/3D texture engine introduced in Houdini 21.