Labs Flipbook Textures
Flipbook Textures ROP is part of the FREE and open-source toolset in Houdini called SideFX Labs. This tool renders and composites flipbook textures. Multiple passes can be rendered to allow for fully dynamic real-time relighting, so you do not have to bake lighting scenario into the colors. The tool comes with real-time shaders designed to work with the exported textures. Built around Houdini 19's high-quality viewport pyro rendering, Flipbook Textures ROP can help you create beautiful volumetric effects, but it is also capable of rendering particles or polygonal geometries together with volumes or separately on their own.
For more information on SideFX Labs and how to get the tool visit: https://www.sidefx.com/products/sidefx-labs/
With one click, you can queue all the render passes at once. But you can also execute a single render pass independently.
Some of the intermediate render passes: Final Color, Non-emissive Color, Depth, Multi-directional Contribution (MDC)
Result in UE5 next to real-life photos
MDC maps are designed to achieve full-dynamic realistic volumetric relighting in engine.
Some of the composited textures
This ROP and its accompanying shaders support SideFX Labs' new motion vector encoding technique that offers close to 16-bit quality at half the memory.