All the tutorial files can be found in the ‘$HFS/demo/lesson_data/’ directory. The folders in here are named to match the chapters and you can load the files from here. In your case you would use the Install Operator type menu then navigate to the file.

Houdini 7.0.192 is now available. This is the shipping version. Check www.sidefx.com for details about the new version.

Houdini 7 beta will be online this afternoon along with a complete list of features.

Houdini 7 beta will be online this afternoon along with a complete list of features.

Make sure you click on the bones to pose the arm and not the end effector. The end effector will give you a different selection and you won't be able to manipulate all the handles. Also the simple arm lesson is now one of the user guide lessons in 6.1 that you can access from the embedded browser. Click on the question mark in the top right and then choose user guide….

Mark,

Why would you need the documentation online when the latest docs are installed with Houdini? Is there anything you are missing?

You must be psychic. I just posted a PDF version of the QRC for download. You can access it from the Community page.

Check www.sidefx.com. The Challenge winners have been announced and there is some information about Houdini 6.1 early access and Houdini at SIGGRAPH San Diego.

Keep an eye out this week for an article on the winners.

There were some file renaming that went on when the files were sent to Vislab that I have to fix. I will make a formal announcement once things are all fixed up.

The link has been fixed and the breaking_ice.pdf file is downloadable. Thanks for pointing this out.

Watch for a new version of Houdini Apprentice in the next week or two. It will deal with the COPs problems. We will be posting some compositing tutorial videos at around the same time. The announcement should be on the community home page late this week.

The demo files were not included with 5.5 because many of them are out of date and require reworking to make them 5.5 compatible. Several of them became sample files on the Learn CD and the goal is for others to follow as either tutorials or samples on the community web page.

Because this directory is very big (over 350 Mb) and it has not been fully reviewed for compatability with Version 5.5, the files will not be available as a single download from the site. Instead they will move to the community as they are updated and/or into the Version 6.0 docs as written examples.

If there are any particular sample files that interest you, let me know and I will see if we can get those files uploaded more quickly.

Robert Magee
Customer Experience Specialist
Side Effects Software Inc.

Check the announcements section of the forum for the announcement of the sponsorship of 3D Buzz. Great news that includes Houdini VTMs and even an online course.

The focus of Houdini Apprentice is allowing 3D artists the opportunity to work with Houdini's built-in tools and techniques. Connections to the outside world have been disabled. Therefore:

(1) No. RIB output or Renderman rendering from Apprentice.

(2) Yes. There is now an interface for building these shaders that can be found in the Vex builder.

(3) No.

(4) No.

Robert Magee
Customer Experience Specialist
Side Effects Software Inc.