> On May 14, 2018, at 1:06 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I’ve only had a few weeks of Houdini, but I really want to learn it, I do
> however, think it needs some consolidating. I found it very hard to figure
> stuff out here on my own. I’m trying to do deformation work with it, and I
> found it hard to find advice from people doing that.
Hey Paul, have you checked into the Houdini discord server? There’re quite a
few very helpful people there.
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__discordapp.com_invite_b8U5Hdy&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=9Z3zUtwUDC-k99YXocS91qSdtudg0-eMNM3T_fLAiwE&s=7P1S6xs2Kea1S8sUZQwJ9CwymBhiZaeSIGqJrKwz6sM&e=
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__discordapp.com_invite_b8U5Hdy&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ529RohsPjjNVwo9P0jVMsrMw7PFsA&m=9Z3zUtwUDC-k99YXocS91qSdtudg0-eMNM3T_fLAiwE&s=7P1S6xs2Kea1S8sUZQwJ9CwymBhiZaeSIGqJrKwz6sM&e=>
> The kind of things that made me throw my toys out of the pram were having
> different legacy ways of writing Expressions ( or was it accessing
> attributes.. something like that, involving sometimes a dollar sign and
> sometimes not) When I tried applying techniques I’d learnt from tutorials to
> my own rudimentary tools, they just did not work. I asked on forums and got
> back ‘try all the methods and see which one works’ and ‘You just have to
> learn approach works where’
> They need to pick ONE way of doing things, and rewrite any old tools that use
> the old method and keep them as legacy for a few versions until they die out.
> Its hard enough trying to learn something new, without inconsistencies and
> gotchas.
Yes, you’re spot on old tutorials are neck breaking at this point. But
consolidation is exactly what they are in the process of. They rid the $VARs
and use @attribute syntax for everything. They are however overwhelmed by the
mass of nodes.
> One thing I love about XSI is that it IS SO clear and consistent.
> When I first purchased XSI I watched a 3 hour video on rigging. The
> repetition of the same type of clear approach across the board, meant that,
> by the end of watching that video, Not only did I feel like I knew exactly
> what to do, I was spotting some inefficiencies in the (author of the)
> tutorials approach. That same day, I could make a useful rig myself and I
> never struggled to understand things, because of the highly consistent
> approach from one panel to the next in XSI. Also when thinking ‘I wonder if I
> can right click on that and do what I want’ or ‘Drag and drop’ that. The
> answer was usually yes. You could smell the genius behind the design of it,
> like it knew better than you, how to make life straightforward.
Yeah, it’s not going to be a smooth ride like that, I’m afraid.
Cheers,
Andy
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