Ezz Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 We have purchased 5 licenses for Arnold-Softimage at my studio. And its awsome. So Im very interested to hear if there is a plugin for Houdini in development? Are there any buzz around?? Cheers Erik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Last I looked into it about two years ago the only Houdini exporter was at Sony Imageworks and was developed in-house. If an official or open Houdini exporter exists I'd be interested to know too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andz Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 There are some info here: SideFX Forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Does anybody know how exactly it compares to PBR, in terms of technology? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason_slab Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 i know there has been a far amount of interest in developing a houdini2arnold plugin, i suggest if your interested you send them a mail! i'll be doing some comparisons for our company next week, to decide whether we use Mantra or Arnold for our next job. this unfortunately means i have to use Softimage... we're currently going to be using Arnold to render a characters hair, the rest of the scene is rendered with PBR, unfortunately rendering hair in PBR is pretty much impossible, and Arnold flies through hair renders. jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xionmark Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 It's in the works (from what I understand). If you haven't seen this already from Marcos Fajardo, check it out: Good stuff. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanostol Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 mh, who is developing it? sometimes a more official statement would be cool, but somehow it this myth thing seems to be a fixed part of arnold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 mh, who is developing it? sometimes a more official statement would be cool, but somehow it this myth thing seems to be a fixed part of arnold I'm on the arnold beta. In order to get it, one has to sign an NDA which will prevent "official" information to be spread around the forums. All I say is this: If you guys are interested in an official Houdini connection (it is possible to roll your own with the respective resources and several people/studios do that), write them about it. Sales potential is hard to estimate by looking into a crystal ball, having people nag by email is a much more reliable source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezz Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 Nice to hear something is happening. I guess its a matter of waiting and see how it all lands. In meanwhile Im gonna study Mantra - seems like an awsome render :-) Thanks for your inputs Cheers Erik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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