Hello,

Back in October 2015 I started working in apprentice.

Part of the reason I chose to start in Houdini is because when I first considered doing animation I first looked into Maya and it had 30 day trial version.

I also think afterwards to keep using it came to about $180 a month.

I thought 30 days is not nearly enough time to figure out if this is something I would want to use and spending $180 per month for a number of months is a bit much that if in the end I don't like it, I've wasted my money just on something to try.

So I saw apprentice was free to try for as long as I wanted. Which seemed like the perfect fit.

So here I am almost 8 months later with digital assets I toiled over to get working the way I wanted, all of which depend on other digital assets and other houdini files I created as references to build other versions of those assets to expand upon.

And giving myself this big project I realized using Houdini is something I could go for because now I know I can do what I have intended for bigger projects.

So I took the next step and purchased the Indie License.

To say I am dismayed is but the tip of the iceberg as what I am discovering in attempting to work with my digital assets now that the Indie License is installed and after doing some google searches on using *.hipnc and *.hdanc
files in Indie.

Am I really going to have to redo about 8 months worth of work to get back to where I was just before I purchased and installed the Indie License?

It won't take me the same 8 months because much of that was learning about Houdini along the way.

But the work will be considerable.

I'm really hoping there's another option.

Contact support, I'm pretty sure they can do a one-time translate of scenes/hda's for you.

Thanks for the tip mestela…sent off Email to support…fingers crossed.