Best Houdini MCP Servers
Houdini is a 3D animation software developed by SideFX, known for its advanced procedural generation capabilities, visual effects tools, and simulation technologies used in film, TV, and game production.
Why this server?
Allows controlling SideFX Houdini from Claude via Model Context Protocol, enabling creation and modification of nodes, executing code, and more.
AlicenseBqualityDmaintenanceConnects SideFX Houdini to Claude via the Model Context Protocol, enabling node creation, modification, and code execution through natural language.3MITWhy this server?
Controls SideFX Houdini via MCP, providing tools for scene management, node operations, parameters, rendering, geometry, PDG/TOPs, USD/Solaris, HDAs, animation, VEX, DOPs, viewport, COPs, CHOPs, takes, cache, and more through Houdini's Python API.
AlicenseCqualityCmaintenanceConnects SideFX Houdini to Claude via the Model Context Protocol, enabling control of Houdini scenes, nodes, rendering, and more through 166 MCP tools.100MITWhy this server?
Monitors Houdini simulations and provides thermal status and emergency throttling capabilities.
AlicenseCqualityDmaintenanceProvides AI agents with real-time system monitoring and control for creative workstations, enabling thermal management and process prioritization to prevent crashes.101MITWhy this server?
Allows AI agents to interact with SideFX Houdini for 3D scene management, node graph editing, material creation, geometry manipulation, error scanning, and more.
AlicenseCqualityBmaintenanceA Houdini MCP server fork for CsrLib-Houdini workflow, providing enhanced tools for scene management, node discovery, graph editing, and safe code execution with tiered security policies.100MITWhy this server?
Allows Claude AI to directly interact with and control Houdini, enabling prompt-assisted 3D modeling, scene creation, simulation setup, and rendering through node manipulation, geometry creation, material control, and more.
Alicense-qualityDmaintenanceConnects Claude AI to Houdini through the Model Context Protocol, enabling direct interaction and control for 3D modeling, scene creation, simulation, and rendering.20MITWhy this server?
Allows controlling SideFX Houdini for 3D content creation, including creating and connecting nodes, setting parameters, executing HScript and VEX code, managing simulations, and building procedural networks.
Alicense-qualityDmaintenanceEnables AI-assisted 3D content creation by allowing Claude Code to control SideFX Houdini directly, including creating nodes, setting parameters, executing HScript commands, and building complex procedural networks.13MITWhy this server?
Provides tools for interacting with SideFX Houdini, enabling AI agents to create and manipulate 3D scenes, simulations, renderings, and more through Houdini's Python API.
Alicense-qualityAmaintenanceComprehensive MCP server for SideFX Houdini, offering 168 tools across 19 categories to enable natural-language control of scene building, simulation, rendering, and more via AI assistants.163MITWhy this server?
Allows AI agents to directly control SideFX Houdini, including creating and modifying nodes, setting parameters, executing Python scripts, capturing viewports, rendering frames, managing scenes, and performing health diagnostics and multi-instance pooling.
Alicense-qualityDmaintenanceEnables AI agents to directly control SideFX Houdini, including creating nodes, setting parameters, executing Python, capturing viewports, and rendering frames, via 57 MCP tools.2MITWhy this server?
Allows Codex, MCP clients, and CLI scripts to connect to and control a running Houdini scene, with support for reading the scene, taking snapshots, and performing reviewed, validated edits through an edit mode safety model.
Alicense-qualityBmaintenanceEnables AI assistants and CLI tools to read and control Houdini scenes with a safety model that separates read and write operations.MIT