On contrary, built in ICE particle system was allowed to do as much possible from single network, even it will be more ‘natural’ for ICE to use something like at least two, similar to Houdini SOP-DOP relation. A bit of nit picking, it is possible in Softimage ICE to some extent, however I don't remember that people were so excited by multiple dependent networks all around. I do not think they change to make it parametric, Houdini has what it takes to model, in his own way. So what you want is not one tool that does it all, but a set of highly efficient tool that can be combined seamlessly and without having to manually drop nodes while retaining a relatively clean network.įco Javier What software does it offer at any time in the modeling, send only a fragment of the modeling to any operator for the particles to happen or any other madness? I think that is the essence of Houdini. having everything in one tool is basically having no history, at least not as granular as SI users are used to. There is a fundamental issue with having an all in one tool without a history and that is not having a history. I doubt I could use it for a long while without having the hotkeys listed on a second monitor at all times.

It sounds like the hotkeys for switching modes are kinda messy as well.

So having the tool focused on that just seems bizarre. I was actually kinda shocked to see the presenter doing that at all. Which is a very archaic and niche workflow. But the demonstration, plus the name “polydraw” gives the impression that it's focused on actually drawing vertices in an isometric view. Grimwolf I've finished the video, and the tool looks kind of… limited? I'm glad for more modeling tools, and I can see it helping a bit with some tasks here and there, like more easily filling holes and cutting in edges.

Houdini sidefx 14 kickass