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Houdini is an exceptional tool! It took me a few tries to get through this press release... this only seems to change things for companies using the engine plug
by lfowles 6y ago
Houdini is an exceptional tool! It took me a few tries to get through this press release... this only seems to change things for companies using the engine plugins that make >$100k.
- erichocean 6y agoYes, though a major annoyance is that it's only the official SideFX plugins that are free, not Houdini Engine itself (the API). So you can't write your own specialized tools. I ran into this recently when we needed an interactive rendering technique that Houdini doesn't support. The Houdini Engine API would have been perfect, but we use Indie and it doesn't support anything but the official plugins. Instead, I'm writing HDK nodes in C++ that accomplish the same thing by copying to shared memory in a subprocess running Optix 7. It works, but it's ugly as hell. Oh well.
- lfowles 6y agoUgh. Maybe this was a move to simplify licensing, I hate having to dig around to see what features are gated especially if there are caveats like API access vs Official Plugins only.