Jim Price

Just to add another data point.

Nvidia Studio Driver 610.62
RTX 3080
Windows 10
Houdini 22.0.368

Simple test of spinning the camera around in the Scene View, no geometry.

New UI + G Sync On: ~44 fps
Old UI + G Sync On: >120 fps
New UI + G Sync Off: >120 fps
Old UI + G Sync Off: >120 fps

Not sure what it is with the New UI and Nvidia G-Sync, but Houdini definitely doesn't like it.

bbrother92
What do you think is best approach to render bitmaps in Houdini? I mean do you think it is good idea to do this on geo plane with real dots?

"Best" really depends on what the game engine wants, and what makes sense for your workflow in Houdini. I personally like using values on a geo plane in Houdini since they are easy to visualize. Then for exporting I could have just used pngs with the Playdate, but I opted to instead base64 encode the data directly in json. It is less efficient as a storage format, but made sense for me as I was streaming the scenes directly from a Houdini session to a Playdate device over http.

Other options could be to store the data 2D Volume slices (COPs) and then possibly export to Roaring Bitmaps [roaringbitmap.org].

Video version explaining the process, warning you have to listen to me talk.



While I'm not a huge fan of AI, I will gladly throw money at some AI that can remove all the "umms" and "ahhs" when I talk. :P