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 <jordiba...@gmail.com> wrote: > below > > On 29 Mar 2014, at 18:21, Perry Harovas <perryharo...@gmail.com> 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 <jordiba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> http://www.jordibares.com/2014_03_28/farewell-softimage/ >> >> Jordi Bares >> jordiba...@gmail.com >> >> On 29 Mar 2014, at 11:24, "Tenshi S." <tenshu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Indeed, we need noise, in every cg online magazine. >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:45 AM, David Saber <davidsa...@sfr.fr> 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 <http://www.theafterimage.com/> > > -25 Years Experience > -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) > > > -- Perry Harovas Animation and Visual Effects http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/> -25 Years Experience -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES)
