tbay312
And no, I don't believe this comparison is too early. SideFX has announced that XPU is "gold," which means that it should be able to compete with other software packages for its place in production pipelines, and it's been publicly released for about 5 years now.

NLM
Hey ! I'd love to hear about this project! Did you manage to fix what you were looking for?

hanyilun2

alexwheezy

toonafish
Don’t know if this is on topic, but if SideFX is smart they will incorporate some kind of AI asap, and programming or scripting will be replaced by writing easy to understand prompts, which would make Houdini much more accessible for mere mortals that can’t write code.

That's pretty sad to hear. I wouldn't want SideFX to waste their time and go down this path of development using AI as an assistant inside Houdini.

Over the last 10 years there are already enough tutorials: articles, courses, blogs telling you that it's not that hard, you just need to spend some time to learn the basics, which shows that it's already quite accessible. After all, there are even tools that allow you to beautifully package snippets of code so that it can be reused with.
And I would not call it all programming as it is used now in the usual sense of the word. Real programming is much more complex than what is used in VEX, HScript and what is required of artists.

What is more interesting in my opinion is the possibility to apply AI invisibly to the user where Houdini may not be fast enough at the moment: simulation, rendering, data compression algorithms, improving DashBox's internal search engine, etc. As it was shown in the last H20 presentation that we can use ML for skinning and terrains.

Are there real artists demanding AI coding in Houdini or it's just marketing bs? It's hard for me to imagine how AI coding can solve real problems in real works. I just spent $99 purchased OD Shelftool recently ,it makes my life much easier with those big,nice,beautiful,readable,easily editable thumbnails in asset library/file browser and intuitive drag-and-drop operating.But I feel little bit sad, as a former c4d user and I'm still firing up c4d&blender once in a while, I know this is just how a modern DCC suppose to be.(I tried Solaris' asset library, it SUCKS！ by all means).I would appreciate it if SideFx start putting their finger on those basic user experience features ,it will benefit all skill level artists, encourage us firing up Houdini more.

• Export multiple assets in gltf or glb
  
• can create Godot Scene Files
  
• define Godot Asset Folder
  

• Exports CSV in UTF-8
  
• can create Scene Files
  
• Optimizer for reducing File Size
  

• creates all required Attributes
  
• Custom Godot path or Houdini Object
  

LouisVass
nice going!

what issues have you encountered running this in H 20?

ive been working on the same thing, started in 19.5 and now in 20

HandcraftedMedia
Very exciting! Been thinking about tackling this task but the websocket stuff is scary
Nice work!

Mjag007
I'm on it, Running sets of 50 frames with no mats to see how it goes.

And to be honest, I also tried Choas Cloud, and that crashed on going through that process. This leads me to believe it might be less of rendering more on the data side.

And to give you a bit more info this is a pretty heavy RBD 450 frame seq. All cached out to disk

• Implement all Object Types
  
• Fix small Bug
  
• Make it work in H20
  
• Release to Github
  

osong
making prototypes and proposals on unpaid basis

what could possibly go wrong

Ruteger
Should I start learning Houdini 19.5 now or wait for v20 to start? Will v20 be that much different in regards to learning curve or workflow?