Just to comment on this - SideFX have been doing some cool stuff with Houdini Engine. I don't think they were intending to add support to Softimage, but they have connections to Maya and Unity already. I think the difference is that we make the Splice API available so it's possible for anyone to put Fabric into an application - I don't think SideFX give you the tools to do this, but I might be wrong. Anyway - I think over time they will become more and more portable between applications. It's a different kind of portability to Fabric, but it makes absolute sense given the rich set of tools they have.
As an FYI, we'll be adding support for Houdini later this year - so this might not even be a binary decision for people to make. We fundamentally believe in heterogeneous, open pipelines - that means playing nice with everyone and focusing on making it as easy as possible to move between applications. On 1 March 2014 10:12, Francisco Criado <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for the noise in last mail, just wanted to add a coment to Paul's > question. > A future without ice? i think best two choices are Houdini or Fabric > Engine, the second one is more open to other software, not like houdini. > > F. > >
