Frank Unger

jsmack
The results would be higher quality to do the math yourself and make something that's stable and not jittery like the autobank option.

Not when I adjust my curve to have more points, it smooths it out perfectly if/when there is some rough turns. Did you try that?

That's fine that you don't agree as I think they can handle some honest critique of the product.
I've worked closely with software teams and Houdini - it's nothing new to point out a few grievances such as these.

It's up to me to make things more complicated than they need to be - no, not for me personally.
I'll never forget seeing some of the most ridiculous networks from other artists - giant bowls of unnecessary spaghetti.
Call it job security to make things more complicated to impress supervisors I suppose.

tinyhawkus
Once you add those parms, make them the default/an HDA and then it's there as you like it forever.

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Thank you for the helpful input - appreciated.

Yeah, I'm specifically talking about "Auto Bank". This should be left alone for all future releases.
I'm not surprised that some of the devout Houdini loyalists would rather use 30+ nodes and VEX to derive normals, etc from a curve, to achieve this basic functionality that is already built-in for Cameras (in particular). (someone online posted a 15 min VEX solution simply for Banking along a path) At what point did SideFX have their morning coffee and donuts and decide this was not important to users? That's my question.

Well I will continue to judge Houdini as a tool because I'm stating the obvious that the company should not hide valuable features in preference of a more complicated "method".