Francis Pimenta

Substance painter and functionality of zbrush will come into houdini just a matter of time. Realtime stuff is done with Touchdesigner that has houdini code in it.

The core of houdini is the best thing what SESI has every development outside produces complexity (development, sales, support...) with not much benefits.
When SESI expand copernicus to Compositing & NLE ala Nuke or DaVinci. They still sale Houdini just for a bigger customer base.

The foundry or Maxon has multiple Software with multiple code bases that creates complexity that need more Development ressource but for the User no benefits.

Would be intressting if every UI element goes to qt quick. With that a hda UI could be run on the web and shown in the docs.

My guess is that when the Vulkan engine can be added to karma as a backend(i think they are on it).
With a sold Vulkan Engine you could support AMD, Intel GPU's in one go. Apple Metal over MoltonVK.