art3mis Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Ok so admittedly I'm a houdini novice. I watched the video http://multi-verse.io/plugins/houdini/ but still confused. What does this plugin actually offer not available natively within Houdini? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haggi Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 With multiverse you can save several alembic versions in one single file and then later switch between versions the same way you can do it in a source code revision system like git (what is the base of multiverse). This way you do not have to deal with several files but only one. And you can switch easily beweteen applications. Let's say you need different alembics of the same geometry into maya, e.g. you have a hires fluid for rendering and a lowres one for UI, with multiverse you can embed it into one file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juraj Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Isn't that workflow inefficient? I mean - having multiple versions of big assets inside one alembic file. Then you can easily end up with several tens of gigabites big alembics. Loading them and transferring over network does not seem efficient when you are dealing with the whole history and you are interested only in the top one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandrake0 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 it's a git repository in the back so it's one file location with multiple versions in the background. so it overcomes the problem of file version numbering / linking and you get backup & sync for nearly free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juraj Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 ah, I see do any of you have experience with it? pros and cons right now I am using git for versioning pipeline scripts and OTLs and I really like it it is for free for now, so it would be cool to test it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandrake0 Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 no i haven't but rumors are there that something with git is in the works for H16. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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