BabaJ

PolyMarvels
Like Alexey said, we are all beta testers at this point with this kind of release.

Actually we are not...only for a small part of the program...that's the part you missed from my post.

There is so much more in Houdini that one can utilize for a wide variety of purposes that simply just works with no issues;
That means, it's not Beta.

kodra
- An actual QA guy
- A person who made probably the best Houdini modeling tutorial online.
- A developer of a quite advanced Houdini plugin.

Only 3 people....you forgot to mention the hundereds that don't even come on the forums because they are busy using Houdini for their own needs, and using the many aspects of Houdini that do work with no issues.

kodra
But of course, it's their own defect, not Houdini's. In the interesting world of software design, the customers are always wrong

In this case yes - there is a difference, like in your case when you continously are harping on the negatives, which are actually in a minority when you compare it to the positives - and I already mentioned that - but you ignore that.

Hopefully this thread gets locked down.

It's one thing to bring up issues, discuss and submit the bugs/rfes if it becomes clear it's not user inexeperience/mistakes.

But then, it's time to move on.

'Users' like yourself though, prefer to keep harping on the negatives repeatedly(and not move on) which serves no one who hopes to come on the the forum and learn something without having to wade through complaints.

Again, hope it gets shut down(these threads that keep harping the same issue) and that I've contributed towards that.

BabaJ
SideFX doesn't have a quality control problem whatsoever - SideFX is actually very high quality.

toonafish
The longer I use Houdini, the more I realize how brilliant Softimage was.

I still use it for modeling, and it’s a relief to simply focus on the task at hand, instead of being in a wrestling match while trying to get a job done.

What happened to those SI developers, did any them end up at Sidefx ?

Ondrej
Houdini 20.5 is using a new hotkey system, with new default configuration files and a new keymap file format and extension (.keymap2).

The documentation on all this is a little behind, so please bear with us.

You can bring in your bindings from an old .keymap file into a new .keymap2 file, with a helper python script, but it's a little involved. First you need to save out a new .keymap2 file from Houdini to act as source from which we will look up the bindings in the old .keymap file and generate a new .keymap2 file with your old bindings.

Then, in a python shell, you can run the following, replacing the arguments to match your file paths/names.

import keymaputils
keymaputils.importV1KeymapBindingsToKeymapFile("path_to_new_keymap2.keymap2", "path_to_old_keymap.keymap", "path_where_to_write_the_new_keyamp2_file", "KeymapName")

ikoon
I have over 300 hotkey overrides.
(some of them are assignments, some of them were automatic "un-assignments" of default hotkeys)

Thank you guys for the information. I hope there will be some way to convert them from 20 to 20.5

kodra
I contacted to SideFX support for this.

They suggest recreating the hotkeys in H20.5. No kidding.

I really don't know why they changed how hotkeys work.

kodra
Actually neither method achieves the same result as old PolyExtrude. The only simple way to do what old PolyExtrude does is... old PolyExtrude, I guess.

Not saying they're not good techniques to know!

Mike_A
That's a good tip Igor.

Another technique I use for this situation is not to use Inset at all, but enable 'front transform' and scale down.

kodra
Thanks for your help so far.

I've encountered another problem. PolyExtrude's inset seems to distort some topology for me, but not in your video.

I got this:

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But in your video it works more like this:

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What did I do wrong?

kodra
I'd like to see more about how you utilize C-plane, as I personally never used it. (Perhaps there is more about it in latter half that I haven't seen?)

kodra
I've got another question though: is it possible to switch between these options with a shortcut or radial menu:

kodra
I can't. There was an important fix in 20.0.6xx about KineFX that is needed for my workflow. Thank for your suggestion though.

I also find a minor typo here:

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Subdivide should be Alt+S right?

kodra

PolyMarvels

kodra
I've been experiencing another issue. I've notice the same issue in your video as well:

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There are "ghost" HUD handles at the bottom left corner. I've got these from time to time. Have you found a way to get rid of them (without resetting the whole viewport)? Or have you reported this to SideFX?

Unfortunately that was introduced after 20.0.506 and never fixed to this day. I didnt report as I just dont wanna bother at this point. And to remove that just hover over the HUD, click right mouse button and uncheck 'Visible'.

Well when I right click on the ghost HUD handles it throws Python exceptions and doesn't show a context menu, so I can't even uncheck 'Visible'.

I'd like to report it to SideFX but so far I can't make the exact steps to reproduce this... they just randomly appear from time to time.

kodra
I've been experiencing another issue. I've notice the same issue in your video as well:

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There are "ghost" HUD handles at the bottom left corner. I've got these from time to time. Have you found a way to get rid of them (without resetting the whole viewport)? Or have you reported this to SideFX?