Marc

Hey. I haven't seen any skin shading tutorials specifically for Houdini, but for your other question I find the 'render view' tab to be quite stable to use. The only problem is if your shader changed dramatically then you'll need to stop and restart the renderer. M

It would be helpful to post a hipfile of what you've tried, or a gif of your results so far. Otherwise it's a difficult thing to know what you're trying to achieve

Try using an add SOP and removing the geo but keeping the points. That way whatever your incoming geo looks like will be the point layout.

ok there were some cached things and some hardcoded things, but I've flushed them all. I'm getting a 'secure' status on all pages now. Let me know if it's working for you. M

I think it's done? I'm getting https on all my links anyway. Let me know if it's all good on your end. M

Hey. Thanks for that link, I'll change it over this morning.

Hey I suggest starting here: https://www.sidefx.com/learn/ and then here: https://www.sidefx.com/tutorials/ You've got a lot of learning to do :). Good luck!

Contributing answers to this forum is always a good way to share knowledge

Which is mildly ironic since the people who's tutorials you want so much are themselves designers. MOPs and Entagma are amazing to see and more knowledge/tools should not be discouraged. Even if all you do every day are pyro sims, learning some design skills will help your sims look better, guaranteed. M

Those parts would work great. RAM will likely be somewhat dictated by the motherboard that you get, however more will be better. SSD is pretty straightforward, get the best one your budget allows :). It doesn't make a huge difference with regard to sims. M

We don't typically delete posts since they could be helpful for someone else who is looking for answers to things. If you PM me the threads you want gone I can take a look to assess them. M

ok that video was really fun to watch.

Awesome! I sent this out to the fx team at work yesterday :). Good to see it.

spammers will spam, that's the nature of the interwebs. We've turned on first post moderation for now, which will shield everyone from the spam. Hopefully it dies down soon and we can turn it off again. M

To be honest my initial idea was to have it called 'marketplace', possibly with subsections for free, tutorials, HDA's, etc. So something like that is likely what we'll head towards. Likely starting with the free section.