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Thanks for the support. Sorry you don?ft like Bryce. With a little effort you can make some real nice landscapes. Vue from E-on software does the same thing but I think that Bryce has a better rendering quality. Other than that I share you opinions about the other software.

My current pipeline is to write script, (done). Record the actors. Mimic, Poser then render in Vue. The truth is Vue is ok but unlike Bryce it will import Poser files. If Houdini could import my Poser files I would drop Vue in a hart beat and pay the price for a license. I think also that a lot of software likes to pigeonhole you into using their products by limiting types of file formats that the program will import or export. Blender is as you say 5 or 10 years old and free, only imports and exports a few file formats. So I don?ft expect much from it. Houdini is competing with top of the line software like Maya and Lightwave.

My last post on this subject. I will try to post back when I?fm done with my project.

Bye

Dale

A job and play with the big boys? Why would I want to do that? I?fm happy with the instant gratification of cheap software that doesn?ft have the learning curve of a cliff.

How similar is playing the SIM?fs and 3D animation?

Make characters.
Make 3d models with bones.

Move into pre-made home or make new one yourself.
Move into environment that someone else made or make your own.

Set parameters on what the character will do.
Set parameters on what the 3d model will do.

Move camera to watch action.
Set camera to record action.

Watch characters do what ever they want to do.
Wait for rendering farm to show you that your 3d models did not do as you expected.

Relax; after all it?fs only a game.
Race like a madman to fix, the dead line was yesterday.

My best friend?fs eight year old daughter is hooked on the Sims. She gets those characters doing all sort of things. When she grows up, you all might be out of a job.

I wrote a book, it not the greatest book but is my best effort. If it wasn?ft for MS word and the spelling and grammar correction, I wouldn?ft have finished it. MS word will open and work with a lot of different documents. Why?
I have several different image programs on my computers. They all open way more than four or five types of image files. Why?

Poser will import and export more different types of files than Houdini. Houdini can to be made to work with any file, all it takes is some knowledge of the file that you are trying to import and you can write an importer. Poser is written in python. I could write an importer for a Houdini file. It would take me at least 3 months to a year. My programming skills are not that good. But it would take as much time or even more for the Houdini importer.

My current gold is to finish a feature film by the end of September next year. Will it be Pixar quality?
Probity not. Can I do it? Yes, with 12 computers I think I can. Will I use Houdini? As it stands right now, no.


Dale

The more one pays for a software the more one expects out of it. The ability to import an object with all its bones. Have it come in the 3d world at 0,0,0, move it and add it to a layer. Then to hide the layer is too much to ask? The ability to scene import from Bryce or Vue might make me think about paying the steep asking price.

Dale