Emmanuel Mouillet

I have just got an answer from aeaeaeae. Indeed freelance can't push HDA assets with an Indie license.
I think some things should be modify here, because Indie won't be willing to push good assets if they wont be able to sell it. For many of us working for companies with FX license, .hdalc is a no go. So there is kind of a non-virtuous circle here.
- Big potential buyer pool will never buy .hdalc
- Potential great Indie mind won't keep the fire and motivation to invest many hours on hda that they wont be able to sell, or if they want they have to spend a full license even if their revenue is under 100.000K.

I also notice that all the good thing i buy , i buy them on gumroad ( KTT , B-system, FLOP's ... ).
At the beginning it was supposed to be the Orbolt mission. But today orbolt is more looking like a ghost town :

https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/89639/ [www.sidefx.com]
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/98544/ [www.sidefx.com]
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/72800/ [www.sidefx.com]

Having a working and dynamic store like the EPIC game store or the Unity Store where we could buy assets directly instead of going on gumroad would be cool. This could also represent a potential source of income, because SESI could charge 10% exactly like gumroad. So all the sells percentage would go in SESI pockets instead of gumroad.

I would also advocate that even if Indie push .hdalc assets due to their license retsriction, SESI should offer a secret sauce backend that convert those .hdalc to .hda and allow those indie user to sell to pro-sumer. As soon as income exceed 100.000K the Indie guy has to buy a studio license.

Great assets like B-System / FLOP's are imo limited because of this restriction, a revamp Orbolt 2.0 would be imo a great things.
I mean python states for exemple are here since a long time. It's a PITA to setup for many of H users, but some brave soul develop great stuff with viewport interactivity with them. Sesi hasn't the time to develop simple useful tool because of all the work they have on all the other part of the software. So pushing those initiative from the user community would be great.

I really feel that where H is lacking the most is in Viewport interactivity. Python states is a strong answer to this, but the potential is there but is not exploited enough to build simple and efficient tool that simplify life. B-system is one of those.
So encouraging and rewarding those initiative while making money on each transaction sounds like a virtous circle for the community.

One last things that would be sweet is to create some kinds of mechanism that give the option to an HDA seller to allow third tier to sell presets that use his HDA, in exchange of a certain fee. For exemple someone create an OTL to create trees procedurally, the creator can sell his assets on orbolt and SESI take 10%. Then he can allow third tiers to create tree presets that use his HDA, but for each assets package sell by a third tiers, SESI take 10% and the original asset maker can also get 10% of the sell. Because the hard work of creating the tools is harder than creating a presets and that would allow asset maker to encourage third party creator to enrich their tool.

Cheers

Nice tool, thanks for sharing.
- having an option to control Scale / Rotation / Position at creation while clicking insertion (N) would be nice
- the fact that it's hdalc at the moment make it impossible to use it at work.

Hi Oliver,

i would have 3 questions regarding OD Tool before purchase:
- is it possible to pay without using paypal ?
- do you support H 20.0.724 ?
- does the assets importer can also work in LOPS ( geo / hdr / texture ... ) ?

Thanks for your time
Cheers
E

EDIT :
- is it possible to pay without using paypal ?
Yes it is you can pay with credit card via paypal no need to register. (Pay in USD or paypal will charge you 4 euros if you pay in EUR)
- do you support H 20.0.724 ?
yes it work
- does the assets importer can also work in LOPS ( geo / hdr / texture ... ) ?
Yes it does