Make Scalable Version Control a Part of Your Foundation
Perforce Helix Core is at the center of development across industries, from gaming and VFX to semiconductor and automotive. Your team might know Helix Core as the enterprise-grade version control system trusted by Fortune 500 companies and award-winning studios, but it goes beyond versioning.
Helix Core is a platform that offers an integrated suite of tools for studios and teams who need it all: a way to plan their workflows, manage and review their assets, and bring their visions to life at any scale.
Transform Your Development with the Version Control Leader
Helix Core gives your global development and design teams a version control foundation for creating without limits. With an unrivaled ability to handle the expanding size and complexity of today’s projects. Helix Core can store and track changes to all of your digital assets—from source code to 3D assets—while giving your teams the scale and security they need to collaborate efficiently.
Popular Features
- Granular access control down to the file level and by IP address.
- Exclusive file locking with global lock visibility.
- Advanced branching models with built-in visualization (via Streams).
- Content distribution server to securely share select assets with 3rd parties.
- Lightweight and instantaneous branching with Sparse Streams.
- Virtual file sync and delta submits of file edits.
- S3 (and S3-compatible) object storage support.
Get a Complete Visual Library for 2D and 3D Assets
Helix DAM is intuitive digital asset management specialized for today’s popular 3D file formats ( including .fbx, .blend, .uasset, and .usd). Helix DAM provides your art and design teams with one central place to find, review, and get feedback on every version of the models, textures, and materials they create — while giving your studio the speed and security it needs to collaborate with multiple vendors and contractors.
Helix DAM is pre-built to connect to all of your existing Helix Core streams and depots. In just a few clicks, give all of your departments the visual library they need to efficiently reference and reuse your entire catalog of IP, and begin interacting with all of your assets like never before.
Popular Features
- Interactive views that lets you spin, rotate, and review 3D models and their animations.
- AI-powered search and tagging capabilities.
- High-resolution thumbnails, with native USD support.
- Customizable metadata for labeling and categorization.
- Sketch annotations for images (with 3D assets coming soon).
- Support for both classic depots and stream depots.
- File locking that shows what is currently being worked on.
Reach New Levels of Efficiency with Real-Time Planning
Helix Plan is a real-time planning tool built by developers, for developers. With the ability to track bugs, time spent, and overall progress across a mix of development methodologies, Helix Plan assembles the many mindsets and workflows on your team into a unified view that anyone can follow.
Helix Plan lets you build and adjust plans fast — with project, program, and portfolio views for your internal and external collaborators. And as part of the Helix Core platform for digital creation, you can link tasks to your Helix Core changelists, and enable deeper tracking and traceability across the workflows you’re already using for your development.
Popular Features
- Product Backlog, Quality Assurance, and Planning Views.
- Import Excel files to create tasks and update existing items.
- Built-in Pipeline Editor for templatizing workflows.
- Ghost users to serve as placeholders for scenario-building and resourcing.
- Field-level permissions that let you set visibility and edit access for each individual field.
- Advanced GraphQL API for developing custom automations and integrations.
Extend Your Version Control with Free Tools
Helix Sync and Helix Swarm are always free for fully licensed users of Helix Core. Extend the power of Helix Core even further across your workflows for a comprehensive edge across your development.
Helix Sync, a lightweight desktop companion for Helix Core and Helix DAM, lets creators version their way, with no code and using their go-to tools. Just drag and drop files into Helix Sync to version any asset, whether that’s an audio file for your film or 3D asset for your game.
Helix Swarm is a web-based code review tool that unites teams for more effective code reviews. Improve the quality of your releases and ensure your code gets reviewed on time and by the right people by streamlining the entire process.
Trusted by Over 90%
of the top AAA game studios and semiconductor companies.
*Survey data gathered from our 2023 TechValidate survey
82%
Rated Helix Core’s ability to scale as “Best in Class”.
100%
Realized a return on their investment within 2 years.
“Helix Core is key to what we do because our business revolves around digital content and data is our lifeblood.”
Mark Holland, Content Supervisor, Unreal Engine Specialist, DNEG and Dimension Studio
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