Captures of the wild + AI-powered search

Wildlights HDRI Browser

Browse, preview, and manage production-ready HDRIs directly inside Houdini. Use text and image based search powered by AI to quickly find the perfect HDRI.

Production-focused

Captured and processed with VFX lighting in mind — high resolution up to 22k, unclamp dynamic range, rapidely growing collection of already 300+ HDRIs.

Houdini-native workflow

Download and manage HDRIs directly from Houdini. No browser juggling, no manual asset handling, just great photons to make your work shine.

Simple licensing

Free to use with a generous daily quota. Upgrade paths will come later if there is demand for it. In the meantime, feel free to contact us if you need more.

Get Wildlights for Houdini

Enter your email, accept the EULA, and hit download. We’ll send a user key to your inbox for activation.

1 Download the tool
2 Install and activate
3 Start lighting!

This is a simplified summary. The full End User License Agreement (EULA) is provided with the installer.

✅ What you can do

  • Use Wildlights HDRIs for lighting, backgrounds, and matte paintings.
  • Use them in commercial and client work, royalty-free.
  • Modify HDRIs freely (color, crop, paint, composite, etc.).
  • Embed them in final renders, images, videos, and cinematics.
  • Use Wildlights as an individual or as a studio/company.

❌ What you cannot do

  • Redistribute or resell the HDRIs in any form.
  • Share HDRIs or include them in asset libraries, presets, templates, or stock collections.
  • Copy, reuse, or repurpose Wildlights source code (in whole or in part).
  • Use Wildlights content for AI or machine learning without written permission.

🧠 Ownership

  • You own your final renders and deliverables.
  • Wildlights owns the HDRIs and the software.

🔐 Privacy & data

  • Wildlights collects limited data (such as email and IP address) to support functionality and security.
  • Data is stored securely to the best of Wildlights’ ability and is never sold or shared with third parties.
  • Wildlights cannot be held liable for any leak of this limited personal data resulting from a security breach.

⚙️ Tool access

  • Wildlights is currently a free tool with daily usage limits.
  • Accounts can be suspended at any time, at Wildlights’ discretion.
  • Contact us for higher quotas or offline / air-gapped studio access.

🏷 Attribution

Attribution is not required, but appreciated.


Questions? If you’re unsure whether your use case is allowed, please contact us before using Wildlights content.

Video Tutorials

Plugin Overview

Installation Walkthrough on All OS

Release Changelog

v1.2
  • Added PySide2 support for H20.5.
  • Database no longer uses pickle numpy arrays for compatibility with H20.5.
v1.1
  • Added Shift-Enter support to connect the envlight to the selected node.
  • Added the ability to change the targeted envlight based on the currently selected node.
v1.0
  • Initial public release.
  • Houdini HDRI browser + AI search.