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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.