hi
Korny Klown ,
I don't know why people always tend to feel offended when someone like me says, that I see a huge potential to improve Houdini.
ill start by quoting this sentence , since i agree with both parts of it .
havent read every post here , but this is a dejavu i experience time after time in houdini forums :
1- users who use other softwares asking for houdini to be
' more conventional ' . absolutely legitimate , imho ..
2- and sometimes some houdini users trying to de-legitimate the issue ( consciently / not )
from my personal pov ,
Korny Klown i too think houdini has a huge potential comparing to its competitors ( which is converted into time and money investment in users context ) .
if there is an ‘ ideal 3d application ’ form to be reached from 3d-app-makers , houdini has a great advantage : its 25+ year proven-nodal-philosophy which other app-makers are adding as pockets into their apps .
based on my personale xperience and perception , houdini-makers need to ‘ rethink ’ its user-to-viewport interaction .
sidefx needs to hire / consult a team of professional users of other packages to study and adapt best user-to-viewport workflow possible without compromising too much its nodal nature .
i think this should be a priority in houdini 's near future .
there are other areas too , but this is more important imho .
also i find useless sending RFEs in this context without seeing the big-first-political-move in this direction from SESI itself .
that needs a good plan .
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hey
Korny Klown just to share a small detail of my relationship with houdini :
iirc i installed my first houdini demo ( somewhere around the year i joined this community , 2007 ) and failed so hard in understanding it in basic things so i though that the best revenge there was , wd be to uninstall it ( not like other demos i had spared till next full-os-format ) .
and so i did .
but after 3 or 4 years ( when i was seriously reconsidering my main 3d-app ) i reinstalled it and after few months i got an Escape Commercial License ( H11 ) .
today i like it a lot and going back ( reopening old scenes on my old 3d-app ) makes me feel so much limited .
i wnt to end my post by saying also that houdini community is fantastic .
dont give up .
.cheers