Houdini 15 Sneak Peak

https://vimeo.com/135607909 [vimeo.com]

SESI outdid themselves again 8) Can't wait to see the other intricate changes.

again, no material overrides and bundles with material assignment.

Lets hope for H16.

Awesome!

Houdini Engine API 2.0 :shock: yeay!!!
Also, Tweak tool looks so cool!!!

still not support SPARSE FIELD in dop

martinkindl83
again, no material overrides and bundles with material assignment.

Lets hope for H16.

It's on their list, I'm sure of it

You mean wish list or list what has been added?

the request has recently been logged as a support ticket.

Recently? We are hoping to it isince h13.

I have no idea about other requests before H14.

To be more clear, I requested some stuff wanted by other as well regarding rendering, and it was added to the ticket system.

Hope that clears things up.

Very unsexy question….are the context sensitive tooltips fixed for expressions and python?

martinkindl83
again, no material overrides and bundles with material assignment.

Lets hope for H16.

Easier overrides would indeed be nice. But, I'm not a fan of bundles (ot takes for that matter) in their current form, since they break with the asset based philosophy of Houdini.
Still, would be better than nothing!

Phenomenal amount of improvements, well done and thanks so much, look forward to use it in production.

Just as an aside, how does the system work in regards to upgrading from 14 to 15… do you have to re-buy it?

Stellar work ! I cannot wait to bang another nail into the Katana coffin ! .

rob

Very nice…
Glad too see modeling side was not forgotten, alas I would've been happier i.e. actually start modeling in H, if the old tools were re-written. Just the extrude tool got some love, I hope it performs well now.

I'm hopeful the modeling improvement work will continue in H16. The direction is definitely the right one as I see many user/artist friendly improvements in all departments.

martinkindl83
again, no material overrides and bundles with material assignment.

Lets hope for H16.

Maybe not quite what you mean, but have a look at material style sheets when the release comes out…

mtucker

martinkindl83
again, no material overrides and bundles with material assignment.

Lets hope for H16.

Maybe not quite what you mean, but have a look at material style sheets when the release comes out…

or maybe exactly what you mean

Style sheets are already in houdini h14,but they are not even close to the usability of bundles with materials. I will just stay in Softimage for another year for heavy cg projects. CG light project are already done with h14.

Anyone know if proper Tangent Space Normal Map support has been added?

- Like using an existing Tangent Space normal map in a Houdini shader at render time and in the GL real-time display? - Or creating a Tangent Space Normal Map from a high res model onto a low res model to allow our cool high quality procedural models to get into a game engine more efficiently?

Thanks,
Craig