Magnific, now inside SideFX Houdini
Magnific docks into Houdini as a native panel. Capture the viewport or a render, describe what you want, and get images, video, PBR materials, HDRIs and full 3D models that land straight back in your scene as materials, COP nodes and geometry. Same account and credits you use on magnific.com.
Houdini 20.5 or later · You'll need an active internet connection while generating.
Stay in your flow. We'll meet you there.
No renders to export, no browser tab to babysit. Magnific docks as a native Houdini panel, so every generation starts from the scene you are already looking at and ends up back inside it.
Install in 3 steps
Download the installer for your system, run it, and find Magnific inside SideFX Houdini.
Houdini package (.zip)
- 1Download the .zip and unzip it somewhere permanent, such as Documents. One file for Windows, macOS and Linux, for Houdini 20.5 or later.
- 2Run install.py from the unzipped folder with any Python 3, or from Houdini's Python Shell. It installs per user, with no admin rights, for every Houdini version it finds.
- 3Restart Houdini. Open the Magnific menu or Windows > Python Panel > Magnific, sign in through your browser, and start creating.
Houdini 20.5 or later · You'll need a Magnific account and an active internet connection while generating.
Magnific's creative engine, in your scene
Image Generator
Generate from a prompt, or from the viewport or a render: frame the shot and Magnific keeps its composition.
Video Generator
Turn a frame or the playbar range into video, modify a shot, or upscale a clip. Results land in your feed and in your Downloads.
3D Model Generator
Build a textured model from a description or from reference views, imported straight into the scene as geometry.
PBR Materials & HDRI
Generate tileable materials, extract PBR maps onto the selected geometry as a material for your renderer, or generate an HDRI as an environment light.
Magnific Nodes
Drop Upscale, Remove Background, Relight, Depth and other Magnific nodes into a compositing network. Each result is stored in the node, so a saved .hip still cooks without the plugin.
Upscale & Relight
Push a render to 4K, relight it, expand it or remove its background, without leaving Houdini.
Feed & Stock
Browse your creations and search stock from the panel, and place any result in the scene as a material or a COP node.
More than a panel. A studio in your scene.
- Stock search, in the panel
- Your creations feed, in Houdini
- Your credit balance, always visible
Pick your editor, start creating
Magnific runs natively in the editors you already use.
FAQs
- Houdini 20.5 or later, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Houdini 19.5 and 20.0 load on a best-effort basis, and older releases are not supported.
- A Magnific menu is added to Houdini's main menu bar, together with a Magnific shelf. The panel is a Python Panel: open it from the menu or from Windows > Python Panel > Magnific. In a compositing network, the Tab menu also lists the Magnific nodes.
- Yes. Sign in from the panel with your existing Magnific account, or create one for free at magnific.com.
- Yes—the plugin runs on the same credits as the web platform. Everything you generate is also saved to your Magnific history. Plugins always consume credits from your account, even if you have a plan with unlimited features.
- Yes, you'll need an active internet connection while generating. Images and video land in your Magnific feed and in Downloads/Magnific/Houdini; materials are assigned to the selected geometry, HDRIs become an environment light and 3D models are imported straight into the scene.
- Restart Houdini after running install.py, since packages are read at startup, and keep the unzipped folder where it is: the installer points Houdini at it. If the installer finds no preferences folder, start Houdini once and run it again. In a studio pipeline that manages packages itself, copy the bundled magnific.json into your packages folder and set its path.
- Yes. Commercial use is included on paid plans, under the same terms as content generated on magnific.com.
- Image generation from a prompt, the viewport or a render; upscaling, relighting, expanding, background removal and restyling; PBR materials and HDRIs; 3D models from text or images, plus retexturing, UV unwrapping and rigging of your own geometry; video from a frame or the playbar range; and voice-over, music and sound effects. The same generative engine you use on magnific.com, inside SideFX Houdini.