Houdini 18.5 sneak peek - Super Renders Farm

SideFX has released a sneak peek video of features we can expect in Houdini 18.5 due out on October 15. Some of the highlights include

A live bridge between Unity and Houdini vi session sync.
BSP brush support in Houdini Engine for Unreal, plus PDG, World Composition support and auto-streaming tiles.
A new services systems for faster task completion.
Comprehensive performance monitoring.
A Shotgun asset publishing tool .
Topo transfer with a conformal mesh solver.
Attribute from Pieces SOP that provides a new method to create common attribute patterns.
Chain Sop for quickly instancing geometry along a path.
Interactive physics brushes for Vellum cloth.
Several Vellum fabric types ready to use.
Faster viscous FLIP fluids.
Interactive Pyro, a GPU accelerated minimal solver for fast prototyping.
Pyro Burst Source SOP, a new method for sourcing and shaping complex explosions.
Pyro rt Trail Path SOP, an artist-friendly way to shape complex explosion trails.
New Pyro tools and shaders plus ready to use sample files.
Mask By Feature SOP that can create a mask from geometry, shadows, AO and more.
Scatter and Align SOP, a high-level instancing toolset.
Solaris Render Snapshots.
Click to target progressive rendering in Karma.
Physical lens shaders in Karma.
KineFX, a new foundation for procedural SOP rigging and retargeting.

Watch the preview on Vimeo.