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But standalone Renderman works as usual in Indy doesn't it?

No 3rd party rendering for Indie. That's the deal.
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I think SideFX will loose A LOT of customers if Indie Customers are forced into using only Mantra and not standalone or plugin 3rd party renderers…

(Mantra is a great renderer, but it's as old as most people in here's moms (not as old as my mom though)…
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the concept of mantra with vex was and is the way to go. because vex gets compiled with llvm it's just a matter of time till it get's a opencl support and then a lot of nodes will be also gpu supported on the fly. i hope that opencl 2.0 will be the api that can be used for vex but i'm not 100% sure. you also can see that the last couple of years all efforts for new nodes in houdini has shifted to vex, only the core nodes and functions are c++.

btw. opensl uses also llvm for the compilation of the shader code so it's today the way to go. not bad for a mom :-)
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I've worked as a software developer using C++ for many years and lately also used alot of LLVM. This does not mean that thing's are “just around the corner”.

I love Mantra! Vex is also very powerful, and a lot like doing a strange form of C programming or something, so I'm a happy camper… C was my first language.

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Not it will not lose users at all. Really I fail to see why that might happen.

And saying Mantra is old … that is plain ignorance. Your knowledge might not be good enough.

Are you a fool or just pretending to be one?
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As I thought …
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