Thanks Perry, my only intention is to help to transition those artists and specially the ICE wizards to transition like I already have done, to Houdini.
Let's see where the journey takes us. :-) Jordi Bares [email protected] On 29 Mar 2014, at 18:51, Perry Harovas <[email protected]> wrote: > Great, thanks for all the info Jordi. > You are amazing with how you have been helping everyone with SI - Houdini > stuff here and on the SE Forum. > > Thanks so much. We all owe a huge debt of gratitude to you! > > Perry > > > > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Jordi Bares <[email protected]> wrote: > below > > On 29 Mar 2014, at 18:21, Perry Harovas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Very well said Jordi. >> Thank you for posting this to the list. >> >> A sad day indeed. >> >> I have been sick for days (a real nasty cold, not just being sad about >> Softimage), and now that I am finally resurfacing, >> I found that the worst thing has happened: >> >> Acceptance. > > I know the feeling… feels really bad. > >> I am now just resigned to having to learn a new package (which of course I >> always knew from the moment the announcement was made). >> It is just a different thing when reality is approaching, than it is once it >> has already hit you in the gut and passed you by. >> >> I love Softimage. But now she is gone. >> Sure I can still use it, but the way forward MUST include a new DCC. >> >> Time to get cracking on firing up these 46 year old brain cells. >> >> Houdini and Modo seems to be the way forward. >> Also looking closely at Fabric. >> >> One question regarding Houdini... Mantra seems quite powerful, with VEX and >> all. > > Mantra is extremely powerful, just a fact, a major film post house in London > I shall not name is using Mantra at the moment instead of Renderman because > the amount of geometry they are dealing with in Houdini can't be efficiently > handled by Renderman but it can by Mantra out of the box… and it is free. > > :-) > >> What Houdini seems to lack, though, are any plugin renderers that are >> working inside of Houdini (as opposed to >> being a stand alone that you export to). Is that correct? Lately I have >> really loved the speed of Redshift. >> I really hope those guys move towards getting Redshift inside Houdini. > > Well, the good news is that Houdini supports a number of render engines, > there are very good integrations done and some on their way like Arnold which > is exceptionally well crafted and gives Maya and XSI arnold integration a run > for their money so if you have Arnold licenses it is an obvious choice in my > opinion. Still in beta but I assume won't take long and the guys from Solid > Angle are exceptionally nice like the Side Effects people > > Regarding Redshift I hope they do port it, but if you have someone that can > write scripts Houdin has a framework to export scenes to render engines of > any kind, Scripted Output of Houdini Objects aka SOHO which is part of the > HDK. > > With this you can build your own exporter fairly easily and although the > performance is not the same as a purely compiled plugin the fact is that you > are free to do whatever you want. > > and the HDK is also free so imho it is a no brainer. > > http://www.sidefx.com/docs/hdk13.0/_h_d_k__s_o_h_o.html > > enjoy > jb > >> >> Anyone know of any embedded renderers inside Houdini? >> >> Thanks again, >> >> Perry >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Jordi Bares <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.jordibares.com/2014_03_28/farewell-softimage/ >> >> Jordi Bares >> [email protected] >> >> On 29 Mar 2014, at 11:24, "Tenshi S." <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Indeed, we need noise, in every cg online magazine. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:45 AM, David Saber <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Touché :) >>> >>> On 2014-03-28 19:12, Christoph Muetze wrote: >>> https://twitter.com/chris_muetze/status/440923956242309120/photo/1 >>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> >> Perry Harovas >> Animation and Visual Effects >> >> http://www.TheAfterImage.com >> >> -25 Years Experience >> -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) > > > > > -- > > > > > > Perry Harovas > Animation and Visual Effects > > http://www.TheAfterImage.com > > -25 Years Experience > -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES)
