March 18, 2025
•Luka Croisez Ventura
•ProductIntroducing Prestige: Your Houdini Assistant
The chat assistant that helps you save time.
The Problem
Houdini is a powerful tool, but dealing with large scenes can be overwhelming.
Imagine, you're stuck on a complex task, and you now have to try to find the niche solution either on the only (outdated) Google link still up, or trying to explain your problem to any AI... good luck.
In both cases, you're not getting the answer you need and you've lost hours trying to find it.
What Prestige Does
Prestige is a chat panel inside Houdini. You ask questions, it answers with all the datas gathered from your scene.
RAG Documentation
2,300+ indexed VEX functions, SOP nodes, and examples. The AI retrieves relevant docs before answering.
Scene Context
Reads your current node graph, selected nodes, and geometry attributes. Answers are specific to your scene.
Multi-Provider
Use Groq, Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, or run locally with LM Studio/Ollama. Your API keys, your choice.
Debug & Analyze
Select nodes and ask "what's wrong here?" or "explain this network". Get actual useful answers.
How It Works
When you ask a question:
1. Prestige analyzes your current scene (selected nodes, attributes, network structure)
2. Searches the RAG database for relevant documentation/examples
3. Sends everything to your chosen LLM
4. Returns code and explanations grounded in real documentation
Privacy
• API keys stored locally on your machine
• Scene data only sent to your chosen LLM provider
Roadmap
This is V1. Here's what we're building next:
V2: Node Creation
Tell Prestige "create a blackhole pointcloud" and it builds the node graph for you. Preview before execution, safety checks, complex request decomposition.
V3: Prestige IDE
A proper code editor for VEX inside Houdini. Syntax highlighting, autocomplete for functions and attributes, AI-powered inline suggestions (like Copilot but for VEX). Classic Wrangle is Notepad, Prestige IDE is Cursor.
Questions? megacoolcorp.contact@gmail.com