Axiom is available for the latest 19.0, 19.5, and 20.0 production builds of Houdini. Daily builds are not supported.

Package Files

After downloading Axiom, unzip the files. You will find a json file and a folder. This is the Houdini package. If you look inside the folder you will see each Houdini version that is supported.

<aside> 💡 Axiom packages have a major version, minor version, and build number associated with them. It is safe to install multiple major and minor versions together however you can not have multiple builds of a particular major / minor version installed at the same time.

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<aside> 💡 When a new production build is released by SideFX we will compile a new plug-in for that version. You will need to download and re-install Axiom if you want it to work with the new Houdini build.

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Installation

Next you will need to move the json file and folder to your Houdini preference’s packages folder.

<aside> 💡 If the packages folder does not exist please create it.

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Your preferences folder can be found here on your OS.

Windows

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\houdini##\

macOS

/⁨Users⁩/⁨USERNAME/⁨Library⁩/Preferences⁩/⁨houdini⁩/##⁩/

<aside> 💡 On macOS you may need to use Finder’s go to folder feature to get to this directory.

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Linux

/home/USERNAME/houdini##/

Now you can relaunch Houdini and search for the Axiom nodes in SOPs.