rkoomera
yes I did. So the release is going to be in mid-October?

I'm setting my calendar notification for October 15th which is a Friday!

For the moment it felt like X-Max, but then...well...

I don’t think I’ve ever clicked a link faster than that Download Houdini 19 Beta button. Alas, didn’t work. I’d love to be a beta tester though.

Yeah I got that email. I didn't know in was a beta tester, news to me lol.

Yeah! We're beta testers! (crickets)

Slinks away...

Seriously though, I wonder how one signs up?

I'm really looking forward to the brain to Houdini interface. Hook up the headset,press make it pretty and Houdini downloads it from your brain, builds and rigs it.

chrism
Sorry about that e-mail blast folks - we were doing a dry run and it went out a lot farther and wider than was intended.

Admit it. The heat from this thread was way too hot and someone fainted and hit that red button by accident! Muahahaha...so October 15th it is!

Well, those who have chance to try out H19, have fun. I guess its a reward for those who are paying full price. I cant really complain, but also can’t wait to see the improvements.

well
I guess we now know it will be mid-October. Thanks for freaking me out Sidefx! :o

Now they're saying late-October for everyone else.

Midphase
Now they're saying late-October for everyone else.

yeah but at least we know it is within sight

We all know our beloved Houdini is only getting better and better. So as always this is really exciting.

chrism
Sorry about that e-mail blast folks - we were doing a dry run and it went out a lot farther and wider than was intended.

Completely unacceptable behaviour. As compensation, we demand that everyone in this thread immediately be enrolled into the beta program. If not, we're all moving to 3ds max.

All I want is for Karma to be fully ready!

I wish full feature list link worked. Can't wait!

chrism
Sorry about that e-mail blast folks - we were doing a dry run and it went out a lot farther and wider than was intended.

This was the best way to start the day, don't worry, with that mail now there are a lot of people happy, including myself

Can't wait to try h19!

Hey, am I late to the party? What's happening?

Soothsayer
Hey, am I late to the party? What's happening?

Just SideFX stepping(stumbling) toward community

Soothsayer
What's happening?

They finally announced COPs 2.0

Berk_Erdag
All I want is for Karma to be fully ready!

I wish full feature list link worked. Can't wait!

This is what many want too... I don't need Karma GPU neither other bell and whistles, just feature parity (at least for basic shading nodes, curvature for instance doesn't work yet) and noticeable performance improvements compared to Mantra. That alone will stop my endless frustrating and tiring ride of testing third party engines.

I actually really like 2 releases a year, but I wonder that 1 year cycles might be better in general.
They have more time to refine the product that is “on the way” as well as the product that is already here aka 18.5.

But I really hope they do their sneak peak well like every time! It’s way way way better than those “apple like talk videos” or those “boring half tutorial feature snippets” from the others