Hi everyone,
I really like Houdini and its lovely development progress is amazing.
As a marketing point of view it's a logical move to try to get stronger in fields that have less users share like rigging and animation and rendering, I understand that but what about development in the main and stronger area.
When was the last big improvement in pyro or rbd or flip.
Instead there are bunch if sop level HDAs for new user for ease of use but what about the core.
Still using old and inefficient houdini volumes in solvers instead of VDBs.
I know it's a lot of code to work on but in the age of vdb and nano vdb and zibra vdb why we still have to use that?
Especially when these ram prices won't be fixed soon!

Btw thank you very much SESI for new theme thing, long time waiting for this!

I like to hope that theres something cool in the works for pyro/rbd/flip. Maybe not all of them, but hopefully one of them.

As an FX guy, I am definitely biased in the fact that I don't appreciate much of the new content that comes out as much as I should, but it seems SideFX is looking to attract as many new users as possible. The great "SOPification" of the solvers is another example of this.

All this being said, we still have access to tried and trusted tools that we know will work. Its not like we're being left in the past, it just takes longer to implement these things in a functional way in Houdini. Its hard to deprecate old systems and replace them with new ones without making a whole ton of people mad.