ferox Posted May 2, 2003 Share Posted May 2, 2003 curious whether anyone has been using sidefx houdini, select etc with rendering gis+landscape+architectecture presentations? or trying the houdini 6 apprentice offering (global illumination, renderman and mantra)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easy Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 This app is too expensive for practicle architectural use. There's plenty of alternative and cheaper software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 wow, at $17,000 for full whack thats like buying a top grade Xeon just for playing solitaire i seriously doubt any one here studying architecture has access (if ever even seen) this software. if they have i'd be highly dubious on the legal aspects! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 There is indeed one very recent member on the forum here who could awnser some questions, given a bit of encouragement - it says in his profile he is a student in Sweden (must have lots of cash up there for cg education ). But i couldn't get an email address, so i went into my archives and guess what. I did manage to find one email here: http://www.aceshardware.com/forum?read=95034163 We discussed hard drive choices and workstation building at these places also, so you might catch up with him somewhere or other on the web too. Cg architect and Storage review (124 post) allows sending private messages, if you register over there. http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=9667&s=4f8c7893726285c06c788fc7aa337f83 http://www.cgarchitect.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000162;p=2 [ May 14, 2003, 11:48 AM: Message edited by: garethace ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferox Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 This app is too expensive for practicle architectural use. There's plenty of alternative and cheaper software.no, i was referring to houdini select ($1,299 USD) were you thinking of adding some excitement to your buildings with bones and a little bit of IK (houdini master: $17,000 USD) ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferox Posted May 14, 2003 Author Share Posted May 14, 2003 garethace, thanks for the links. they were helpful in themselves re hardware. i was interested in houdini select (v6) implementation of vops, particles and global illumination. how's the emerald isles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 No problem, the emerald isle is rainy and green like usual - nice soft rain. :ngelaugh: Where is Antipodes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistyk Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Hi ferox! You probably know this already, but you could try out Houdini 6.0 Master or Select for as long as you like, with few restrictions. You can download the Houdini apprentice 6.0. Please visit SideFX's website here for more info. There is a forum at that site, but the the most active forum is likely the Odforce forum. 3Dbuzz has a couple of Houdini-related forums as well. And there's an interactive "Houdini class" at 3Dbuzz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 I think the forum link is just exactly what was needed Mistyk thanks. Tell me though, how big into computers are the guys in scandanavia at the moment? I was in Helsinki late last year, and saw the big building on campus there with lots and lots of SGI boxes and so on - very impressive. How are opportunities in Sweden for the third level guy doing computer graphics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistyk Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Originally posted by garethace: ...it says in his profile he is a student in Sweden (must have lots of cash up there for cg education ).If this was in reference to me; Actually I'm taking a Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology). And it's free . BTW, what's the emerald isle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 BTW, what's the emerald isle? Dear old Ireland. Did you get into computers after your science degree? I mean, does the scientific, computer programming side of cg software interest you that much? I notice houdini is available for alot of open sourse types of platforms. Have you ever visited the povray website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferox Posted May 16, 2003 Author Share Posted May 16, 2003 Where is Antipodes?antipodes a mirror site for the celts in the southern hemisphere middl.earth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferox Posted May 16, 2003 Author Share Posted May 16, 2003 You can download the Houdini apprentice 6.0thanks for that, they were good links. so, i now have apprentice, downloaded 3dbuzz houdini 101 modules, perused the sidefx manuals, and looked at the caustics vid (sidefx) re global illumination settings. houdini 6 uses shaders for the photon maps? it seems an incongruous approach (ie. unintuitive) to global illumination? is it efficient? Actually I'm taking a Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology). And it's freethey will take it from you eventually (high swedish income tax)? (anything.... ...to pop the balloon :???: !??) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistyk Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 Originally posted by garethace: Did you get into computers after your science degree?Before. Originally posted by garethace: I mean, does the scientific, computer programming side of cg software interest you that much? I notice houdini is available for alot of open sourse types of platforms.What I like about Houdini is that it allows for a procedural and mathematical approach to animation. Vector and matrix algebra can be used to transform objects and points. And the Channel Operators (CHOPs) provide a means for controlling just about anything through single-variable calculus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistyk Posted May 17, 2003 Share Posted May 17, 2003 Originally posted by ferox: houdini 6 uses shaders for the photon maps? it seems an incongruous approach (ie. unintuitive) to global illumination? is it efficient?Since version 6 only very recently became non-beta, I haven't played much with the G.I. features, so I'm afraid I can't be of any help in that area. You might try the Odforce forums, in which there have been some discussions on G.I. Originally posted by ferox: high swedish income tax?Very much so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethace Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 I did download the version 6, but i was wondering if it needs to dial up a server for licensing? The machine i was using is not online, so i could not get the windows version started. Thanks for the explanation about animation/Houdini... i was just wondering about Houdini as an application - i used read some articles about it in cg world magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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