Hello Rob, I won day 12 in 2021 and waited thinking I would be contacted in some way, it's been a while but is there any chance I can get the lovely t-shirt?

You are using "biased" as if it meant something for you, have you done research on what is actually biased or you are just spouting it? I use both Houdini and Blender, and it's much better than using any of them alone.

GCharb

EdganHomt
3900X / 56gb 3266mhz / RTX3060(12GB) / W10 19043.1288

Pyro Scene:

XPU: 0:22
CPU: 10:20

Rhino Scene:

XPU: 3:04
CPU: Too long, Elapsed: 31:00 - Remaining: 37:58

Below a comparison between Karma XPU, Cycles-X(1024samples), which took only 18.6 sec, and Cycles-X(200samples) with similar noise to XPU, at 6.23 sec, yes. All in ACES, same hdri, materials, rhino was using glass shader instead of principled transmission that looked very dark, no time difference.

So in this test, XPU was an order of magnitude faster than CPU, and Cycles-X another order of magnitude faster than XPU .

XPU is in alpha, and Cycles-X is a biased version of Cycles, therefore much less precise than Karma, I don't see the point of comparing Houdini to Blender, Houdini is way more powerful than blender, which is why I switched to Houdini, I got tired of hitting a wall with blender all the time, Houdini might not be free, but with it I am free of the limitations of blender!

I smell a bit of salt? Cycles-x just barely go out of alpha, and the biased argument is just funny, but hey if you are happy thinking that...

3900X / 56gb 3266mhz / RTX3060(12GB) / W10 19043.1288

Pyro Scene:


XPU: 0:22
CPU: 10:20

Rhino Scene:

XPU: 3:04
CPU: Too long, Elapsed: 31:00 - Remaining: 37:58

Below a comparison between Karma XPU, Cycles-X(1024samples), which took only 18.6 sec, and Cycles-X(200samples) with similar noise to XPU, at 6.23 sec, yes. All in ACES, same hdri, materials, rhino was using glass shader instead of principled transmission that looked very dark, no time difference.

So in this test, XPU was an order of magnitude faster than CPU, and Cycles-X another order of magnitude faster than XPU .

A cartoony valley, hope you like it.

aghiles

Daryl Dunlap
Buying 3Delight makes no sense, SideFX already has a production CPU engine in Mantra - and SideFX clearly accepts that CPU engines are a legacy product - as SideFX has literally stated, they are not investing in their Mantra codebase anymore.

You don't even have to buy it: first license is free for commercial use And you get 1000 mins of free cloud rendering.

… GPU is the future and AI has just begun its disruption in the 3D/VFX industry.

No one can really predict the futur but I don't see any disruption coming from AI and GPU on the production side of things in the medium term at least.

It's already starting, in the next 5 years we'll be surrounded by AI tools in 3D productions. One example: https://graphics.pixar.com/library/SuperResolution/ [graphics.pixar.com]

Sygnum

Midphase

shadesoforange
What in particular do you like?

I also love that hitting the keyboard letter of the axis, restricts the move/scale/rotation to that particular axis. It's such an incredible time saver and it's so intuitive that I don't understand why others don't implement such a simple thing.

This was the first thing I changed from their system back to the traditional axis/gimbal style. It's so confusing that the object does a transformation right away which you then have to restrict to the axis you want it to move. I don't want to look/think about the axis I want stuff to transform.

So you want it to transform itself. Blender does really have a more intuitive transform procedure, with CAD Transform addon it quite nice. In vanilla you can use middle mouse to transform the object in the general direction of the mouse movement or just shortcuts to restrict it by axis.

jorgelm23
Well after testing Houdini version of box cutter I have to say I feel a bit disappointed ☹️.
In Blender version You can start creating box, circle and custom shapes by default, tried to create a circle in Houdini and it did not aligned automatically to the surface face, it did not keep proportioned so you need to eyeball a perfect circle shape,
In blender you can Trace your shape and use shortcuts to do many actions such as union, substract, Cut, etc.
You can recall and reselect all the shapes you cut visually using Hardops.
You can perform Cuts and tweak all the cuts you did as if they were individual objects,

And the list goes on and on.

Houdini's attempt, Unfortunately is light years behind Blenders.

Hmmm

Yeah, some modelling tools like hops/bcutter would be nice, these in my opinion give blender the edge in all the modelling landscape, despite what other “industry standard” software users try to believe.