scott8933

Well, the EPS topic has come up a few times over the years (three, plus once on the mail list, plus maybe two in Japanese) so I assumed the topic has had its day in the sun.

Emails to the sales address listed on the Contacts page went unanswered.

It came down to this decision - Houdini seems to be really well suited to the larger operations. I'm just one guy here and do everything myself. 3D is a secondary consideration, I mostly do motion graphics. So none of the above really bothered me, since I'd already kind of ruled it out as a good replacement for EI. My 3D needs aren't fancy, to sort of quote Jasper from the Simpsons. (“Slow down. The sidewalk's for regular walkin', not fancy walkin'”)

But I still check back from time to time, so hey, maybe everything will fit in to place one of these days.

altbighead
Hi

If you are a potential customer , don't you think it will be better to talk with SESI direactly or even post a Feature request in this forum.I mean judging by the apperance of sesi staffs in both SESI and Odforce forum , I think that SESI is taking both free and paid user's suggestion, feature request and bug report seriously.
peace :wink:

Yes, that was the state of things in v5. I don't know if AI import is better in v8 - is this still Houdini's idea of Illustrator suport?

“opening the eps file with a text editor and then adding the string:

%AI3_Note: Houdini Forever

then save out the eps and try importing it.
the file will come in with some garbage, but insert a delete sop then delete the unwanted primitives.”

'Cause that's just about the lamest thing I've seen in a long while, and I'm a career-long Electric Image user. Well, at least it doesn't make you do it from a DOS command line, now THAT would be the ultimate insult.

After jumping through those hoops, I did indeed get an AI file to load but only after -also- removing all colors and fills and leaving just the paths. That and the need to save it as AI3 makes this feature basically useless.

If there are any graphic designers using Houdini, and if any of them find this to be an acceptable way to work, I'd be amazed.

And that was about as far as my learning adventure went.

edward
We should probably be forking this thread. But anyhow, hope this helps:
mail archive search [sidefx.com]

Wow, I didn't expect to ever revisit this thread. Not a year later at least. I agree with the gist of several of the posts - on the job, with a deadline is a really good way to learn (for me at least).

But I never bothered with Houdini. As soon as the learning curve brought me to “okay, I need to import this Illustrator part” which was answered by “Houdnin doesn't import Illustrator”. Same thing that hung me up when I tried to learn v5…

Just curious, has this changed at all in the newest version? I guess there isn't much call for importing Illustrator paths…but aren't there -any- other graphic designers using Houdini?