animatrix Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Any news about H16 at Siggraph? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 Booth Presentation - Houdini Roadmap started about 20 mins ago... funny - but use headphones if you're at work! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 On 7/27/2016 at 6:23 AM, pusat said: Any news about H16 at Siggraph? I think I've heard that it's asymptotic development practice now, so they will never quite reach version 16, only v15.9999999999999999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f1480187 Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 With the installer size of 9999999999999999 GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sekow Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 not feeling the new icons. drag line and plug would be nice. other than that I dont know why the node system has to be improved visually... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 (edited) Super! This means FEM have to be much improved too maybe even GPU'd!, and surface tension, booleans et al... yay. That is some mad-az node iconography - cool to see the olde style madness back, wished the old logic & cookie icons could return. They certainly contextualise the operation but those rounded corners could be hardened though IMO. Shops looks a little blender/maya like, could have more Houdini characteristics. Edited August 12, 2016 by tar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abvfx Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 I'm not super hot on the node design but it is new and i get what they are trying to do, i doubt it is set in stone. But everything else is very exciting. Especially the radial menu. It might not seem big but i think it will be huge how people interact with H. Especially in animation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy58 Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 1 hour ago, sekow said: not feeling the new icons. drag line and plug would be nice. other than that I dont know why the node system has to be improved visually... I can see it be helpful with larger hierarchies like character rigs. The node shape supersedes the icon at a certain zoom level. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werner Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 I'm sure he mentioned that the user can customise the node shape yourself. That might indicate that you could keep the old design. I do love the idea of faster and more stream line workflow though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Amion Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Ooh! Fresh! :-) Have a look at Blender Auto Ik/Fk switch while youre in the character overhaul, really fast solution for blocking out animation and it sure would be a great addition to the new autorig setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fencer Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 really? you waste your time on icons? where new microsolvers? where mantra improvements? where Carl? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pezetko Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 I really hope those icons was only joke experiment what is possible with new system. I was like... when I saw them. Sincerely I would be a really ashamed having director next to me and having to work with application with those icons But overall really nice stuff guys! I'm looking forward to Christmas time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybar Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Maya is trying to be like Houdini, now it's the other way around with the shading vops. And I literally laughed when I saw the new node icons, I guess the idea itself is nice but that implementation looks really childish. Please please please make it so you can turn it off and keep the old (current) style that we're used to. At least an option to have everything as rectangles. Having tons of nodes in your scene, each with a different style of node is gonna be extremely more messy than it already is. But, I think it's great the network view is getting some love, it definitely needs it. I might have missed something/misunderstood, just skimmed through it at work without sound. And finally better booleans! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla's fan Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 still not support sparse field Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 8 hours ago, Mikael Amion said: Ooh! Fresh! :-) Have a look at Blender Auto Ik/Fk switch while youre in the character overhaul... That was added into Houdini 6.1 . Here's a quick demo that I made in H15. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tar Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 7 hours ago, fencer said: really? you waste your time on icons? where new microsolvers? where mantra improvements? where Carl? All those tech improvements are from ~5min to ~12min in the video including a accurate surface tension microsolver, FEM muscles, Mantra adaptive sampling and more. For animation it looks a bit Pixar Presto if I'm understanding it correctly. In regards to deriding the nodes; it's worth noting that Von Neumann also said that programming in anything but machine language was a waste of time... so how's that working out for you If the Network View can be abstracted to work better at a higher level than more power to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 wrt the node shapes...sometimes you have 1500 nodes in an HDA and it would be nice to identify node types at a glance - instead of having to zoom way in to find the node you're looking for. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis.albus Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 (edited) Love the new VOPs nodes with thumbnails. That was long overdue. Could have a bit flatter look for my taste but whatever ... I am however VERY sceptical about the look of the other networks. Way too playful. The idea of having customizable node shapes is great, but keep the defaults simple and unobtrusive. Use simple shapes to distinguish the different node types (rectangle, rounded rectangle, chamfered edges, oval etc.). Keep the node flags in the same place for the nodes. If that's not possible with different node shapes use a different approach like Katana which has two squares (always left and right of the node name). The node inputs and outputs also look very small which makes it harder to quickly connect nodes. I also hope that there are new methods to connect nodes. I am thinking about a click-output + drag + release-on-input mechanism (painting the connection) instead or in addition to the old click-output + click-input. Regarding the adaptive sampling: Will this be a pixel-variance based adaptive sampling which is generating more AA samples when needed (like VRAYs adaptive sampling)? I really hope the answer is yes Edited August 13, 2016 by dennis.albus 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennis.albus Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 1 hour ago, michael said: wrt the node shapes...sometimes you have 1500 nodes in an HDA and it would be nice to identify node types at a glance - instead of having to zoom way in to find the node you're looking for. I agree that this is important. However for this purpose we use a node coloring scheme (all nodes are colored automatically upon creation). From far away this is even easier to read and distinguish than different node shapes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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