Shameless plug follows.

Arnold for Houdini (HtoA) is now publicly available.

This means anybody can get it on https://www.solidangle.com/arnold/download/ [solidangle.com] and try it out.

Official announcement here: http://eepurl.com/3F78n [eepurl.com]

Cheers,

kikou
Shameless plug follows.

Arnold for Houdini (HtoA) is now publicly available.

This means anybody can get it on https://www.solidangle.com/arnold/download/ [solidangle.com] and try it out.

Official announcement here: http://eepurl.com/3F78n [eepurl.com]

Cheers,

Specially thanks for this good news

Awesome, this looks great. I'm looking forward to learning more about Arnold's capabilities. Users should note that Indie and Apprentice have some limitations in allowing third-party rendering systems.



http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&p=155695 [sidefx.com]

Awesome !

Rob

Chronon
Awesome, this looks great. I'm looking forward to learning more about Arnold's capabilities. Users should note that Indie and Apprentice have some limitations in allowing third-party rendering systems.

Thanks! I've added a big fat warning about Indie and Apprentice incompatibility in the installation instructions to make that clear.

And not even with the watermark ?

Lewul
And not even with the watermark ?

Sadly no. This is because the Apprentice or Indie licenses do not allow to use renderers other than Mantra.

It would have been great for learning purposes…

Lewul
It would have been great for learning purposes…

I know… Please ask Sidefx.

Very good fun to have Arnold along side Mantra.

Any news on a version for the latest production release 13.0.547? Earlier Houdini's don't run on OsX.X Yosemite.

Thanks!

MartybNz
Any news on a version for the latest production release 13.0.547? Earlier Houdini's don't run on OsX.X Yosemite.

It's on its way.

Any News on “Arnold Apprentice” for now?

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Any News on “Arnold Apprentice” for now?

This is not in our hands. Houdini Apprentice and Indie prevent the use of third-party renderers. We are discussing the subject with SESI but I would not hold my breath.

As to Arnold, you can render with watermarks if you have no license or request a trial license on our site. But for now, you'll need to have access to a full Houdini or HoudiniFX license to try HtoA. Sorry.

Discussing the subject with SESI sounds good for me - for now

Yup - Arnold, and other upcoming GPU 3rd party renderers, is one reason to go with an Fx license over Indie.

As for schools, we simply go with the Educational License, which does allow for third party renderers.
At FX Animation we already have our server Arnold licenses running on Houdini.

I do agree some kind of watermarked Apprentice wouldn´t hurt that much.

I second that. Houdini Indie with Arnold would be a killer combination for freelancers/small studios!