When you work in Nuke you also can't freeze your sequence. You either use a cache node or render out a file sequence to disk.


Indeed, and it's not at-all uncommon to do so to speed things up and or re-starting from a given point as an initial state.

I guess it was mostly to streamline that a bit.



On 02/22/17 11:27, Florian Breg wrote:
Working in Houdini is more similar to working in Nuke than working in SI/Maya/etc if you ask me.

With Houdini you have data (e.g. bgeo, abc) that is stored externally and the "scenes" more or less only contain the rules to modify this external data.

Traditional 3D apps store data (e.g. polymeshes) and the rules (e.g. operators) in the scene if you don't use referenced models. That's why you can easily freeze stuff and why it makes sense to do so.

When you work in Nuke you also can't freeze your sequence. You either use a cache node or render out a file sequence to disk. It is the same way in houdini.

One of Jordi's PDFs explained it in a more elegant and complete way if I remember correctly. Maybe you give them a try.

Have fun learning Houdini. It is worth it.

Cheers,
Flo



Am 22.02.2017 16:44 schrieb "Paulo Cesar Duarte" <paulocdua...@gmail.com>:
Yes, I perfectly understand the procedural approach, but over the last years Houdini is getting better and better in interface and modeling tools, they are trying to make a complete 3d tool set in all areas, so the idea is use Houdini for all tasks, not only import things from Maya and make simulations, lets say that I want modeling a complete character or vehicle inside Houdini, I would end up with a hundred of SOP nodes. 
Houdini is an amazing software, I just don't understand why I can't collapse nodes, I think every DCC can do that, simplify things when necessary.

For now I'm going to lock the node and delete the network upstream when necessary, thanks for the tip. 

2017-02-22 7:00 GMT-03:00 Jordi Bares <jordiba...@gmail.com>:
You don’t really want to, it is one of those things that will challenge you at first and the you will see how much better is this appraoch.

Regardless of my opinion, if you want to collapse in the sense of Softimage, lock the node and delete the network upstream.. that is effectively the same.

jb




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