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?
Allows rendering, inspecting, and diagnosing OpenMoonRay scenes through Houdini's husk and HdMoonrayRendererPlugin, including launching the interactive viewer, validating scenes, and managing batch renders.
AlicenseBqualityBmaintenanceEnables MCP-compatible clients to render, inspect, and diagnose OpenMoonRay scenes through a local MoonRay runtime, with support for interactive viewing, scene validation, and render comparisons.25Apache 2.0Why 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.
AlicenseCqualityBmaintenanceConnects SideFX Houdini to Claude via the Model Context Protocol, enabling control of Houdini scenes, nodes, rendering, and more through 166 MCP tools.100442 PyPI4MITWhy 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.1001MITWhy 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.
AlicenseCqualityAmaintenanceComprehensive 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.2061,511 PyPI238MITWhy 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.
AlicenseNot gradedqualityDmaintenanceEnables 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.
AlicenseNot gradedqualityDmaintenanceEnables AI assistants and CLI tools to read and control Houdini scenes with a safety model that separates read and write operations.MITWhy this server?
Enables AI agents to create and manage WebView windows within Houdini, allowing embedding of web-based UIs and bidirectional communication with the 3D environment.
AlicenseNot gradedqualityAmaintenanceEnables AI agents to manage and interact with WebViews in DCC applications through tools like screenshot, load URL, eval JS, and event streaming via the Model Context Protocol.108 PyPI44MIT