Jason Posted September 7, 2002 Share Posted September 7, 2002 Just want to say thanks again to Ben Simons of the Sidney Vislab for setting up this fast mirror of the Apprentice CD's. Cheers to the best graphics software community there is! Won't everyone spead the word to other forums? Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draz Posted September 7, 2002 Share Posted September 7, 2002 Ditto what Jason said. Thanks Vislab! This will certainlyhelp in the distribution of Apprentice. I've already started a thread at 3D Buzz about the news and have seen one at CG Talk. These are the two most heavily populated forums I can think of at the moment. Hope their servers can handle the load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaJuice Posted September 7, 2002 Share Posted September 7, 2002 Big thank you to Mr.Simons. I'm downloading it right now. btw, do any of the Houdini vets on this board make use of the learning material on the cds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 7, 2002 Author Share Posted September 7, 2002 Good to hear it, DaJuice. If you look at that post in the Announcements, I've added a link to the techimage site which may or may not be a quicker download for you. I found the video tuts really good. As a vet, you know all of the different technologies in Houdini but you often don't fully click how SESI intended you to use 'em. The tuts show some really good techniques as they planned it to work. I'm thinking particularly of using Macro's with VOPs and so on. Cheers, J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Hmmm. The Windows installer of Houdini looks rather different from what it used to be! Did all of the .hgz files were packed in to one .cab file? gnu.hgz, lserver.hgz,toolkit.hgz... all of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 By the way! Why is there two installers for Linux? One for Linux6 and another for Linux7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenong Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 By the way!Why is there two installers for Linux? One for Linux6 and another for Linux7. They are compiled for RedHat 6.x & RedHat 7.x respectively because each of the distribution uses a different kernel. Houdini is only officially supported on Red Hat Linux, though there are reports that Houdini runs on Mandrake & SuSe. Cheers! steven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Just wanted to add my thank you to both Ben and SideFX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaJuice Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Hey guys, is there an idiot's guide to using wget? All I see is a bunch of files and directories when I unzip, but no executables. btw, some of the directories under the sample files go really deep, like cd2/learningData/sample_files/highlights/butterfly/houdini/shop/displace/...etc. Do I really need all that extra stuff beyond the hip files, because it looks like the folders and files that get setup when you install Houdini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 try this if you want to mirror everything under cd2 folder in the server wget -b -m -np http://bla.bla/bla/cd2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miguel m Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 a more reliable way to do it, since the realmedia clips is a huge part of the download is to download them separately wget -b -m -np -R rm http://bla.bla/bla/cd2/ will download everything but the movies then wget -b -m -np -A rm http://bla.bla/bla/cd2/ will download only the rm files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Just installed Apprentice for Windows. Can't find "gnu" and "toolkit" folders! They're used to be in $HFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 9, 2002 Author Share Posted September 9, 2002 I don't know is the HDK is distributed at all with the Apprentice edition (the "toolkit" folder), as with the gnu toolkit. Did you do a custom install or an easy install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaJuice Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 Ok, I got me one of them fancy off-line browsers. Seems to be working good, it just creates a lot of extra htm links for the directories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 I did custom install and checked everything except for additional file assosiations. I just found out that GNU utilities are no longer distributed with Houdini as of version 5.5(read about it here) and instead one can install Cygwin utilities(which is the same thing) But I still have question about toolkit! Is it the toolkit I need to compile VEX code or something else? What is the toolkit for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenong Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 Hi Stremik, The Toolkit is the Houdini Development Kit (HDK). No, it's not necessary for compiling VEX code. It is used for writing custom OPs. Plugins basically. Cheers! steven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stremik Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 That's a relief! But I would still need Cygwin utilities if I want to compile my shaders, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenong Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 Nope, to compile VEX shaders, you use vcc which is part of the Houdini installation. Cygwin gives you Unix command/utilities tools. If you would like to set your mind at ease, you can go to Start button -> Programs -> Side Effects Software -> Houdini 5.5.36 & select Command Line Tools to get a DOS shell with the Houdini Environment initialized. Type "vcc -h" in the shell & you'll get the usage message. Cheers! steven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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