sekow I dont get the OpenVDB Grooming Toolset. I have the the strong feeling this is something amazing…
The Draw hair tool creates a vector field using OpenVDB then points are advected through it to create the strands of hair. It provides a better starting point for grooming.
Curious, is this based off of Ashraf Ghoniem's concepts that he employed at Dreamworks and presented at Siggraph 2013? If so, that's freaking awesome..
pelos what does position based dynamics stands for?
as far as I'm concerned, houdini's philosophy is to achieve your creative goals as many ways as possible. We find similarities with other tools in houdini, perhaps with greater advantages and disadvantages, but when the amount is greater disadvantages are lower, and for that and much more, houdini is the best. So, depends largely on how you use the tools creatively the next steep.
pelos what does position based dynamics stands for?
PBD is a thought framework or approach for solving particle dynamics in a stable way. It's SPH with constraints, done the right way The main idea, approximately, is not trying to solve velocities and impulses, but work on just the point positions. See the papers from Matthias Müller [matthias-mueller-fischer.ch] and Miles Macklin [blog.mmacklin.com] for the details.
@eetu thanks for the link. I found this demonstration at Macklins blog . It looks awesome regarding speed and bi-directionality. It smells like future ! https://vimeo.com/94622661 [vimeo.com]
i know…. but the good thing is it's just 5 days and the weekend is here so just have some fun do clubbing, drink enjoy the bunny's and then wake up will be just 3 day's or even less :-) have fun….
, no more news about H14? Just the sneak peak and wait until 15th? 
