Gilly123 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Thank you. I have done multiple tree building tutorials, and it has made me understand not only Houdini better, but also on how a tree, like a central nervous system, is not a simple item once you look at growth, age, materials etc. A tool such as yours, is a welcome addition to the powerful things that Houdini does.... depending on the work put in. So I ponied up the full amount $$ even though I am running the NC edition. You deserve it for the work put in..... Now if only I can find a decent sea shell tutorial, based on the work that Deborah Fowler uses for her students. Again, I dont want to hijack anything, I want to learn how and I think this is a good revenue stream for everyone that is using Gumroad etc. Sorry to ramble. Thanks again for the tool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickman Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 like this? I tried a few... failed. One switched from vex to nodes in the middle, expecting me to figure that out. I'm like... can't I just buy the tool!? So.. Aragatory? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilly123 Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 Yep, that was what I had seen on vimeo in a few places. All of them were part of a visual effects coursework. So many people have been given the same task for more than a few years. While I have been able to get the basic form of the shell from the formulas that are available online, the finer detail of building a tool would be a good tutorial on selecting parts of the shell with specific adjustments. Anyhoo. TIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vexosaur Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 Glad you are liking the tool and I appreciate the purchase. The shell is an interesting idea, I’ll add it too my list. I’m thinking I’ll start doing tutorials for how I actually make tools, the not super complex ones anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobc4d Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 if you do a seashell tutorial, would you do one on the basic clam shell ? I have a project I'd like to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vexosaur Posted December 3, 2017 Author Share Posted December 3, 2017 4 hours ago, bobc4d said: if you do a seashell tutorial, would you do one on the basic clam shell ? I have a project I'd like to do with it. Hopefully it will work for a number of different shell types. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vexosaur Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 @stickman @Gilly123 @bobc4d 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palipala Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Hi Aragatory, are you still planning on updating your Tree Asset? Seems cool enough. I have bought TheGrove3D, because I dig the 'let the tree grow' thing, but yours seem like a nice tool, too. Still would be nice if you have any plans as you mentioned before with adapting more to the new new 16.5 features and so on... Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vexosaur Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 On 26/04/2018 at 10:37 PM, Palipala said: Hi Aragatory, are you still planning on updating your Tree Asset? Seems cool enough. I have bought TheGrove3D, because I dig the 'let the tree grow' thing, but yours seem like a nice tool, too. Still would be nice if you have any plans as you mentioned before with adapting more to the new new 16.5 features and so on... Cheers Don't have any plans to add to this at this point in time, there are already quite a lot of really nice tree growing/making systems around. I do have plans for some other things though, that aren't already done so well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palipala Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Too sad. Oh well, I have already bought your asset and I like it pretty much. I see a lot of potential in it. And I think that there aren't as much good Tree generators as you presume. Speedtree has a crazy price point, Onyx and XFrog haven't been updated for a long time now, and The Grove 3D (which is really nice) but doesn't have the flexibility Houdini provides. So quite some potential I hope that you won't totally abandon your Tree asset (or you should maybe state it as abandonware on Gumroad, so potential buyers know what to (not) expect in the future). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vexosaur Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 3 minutes ago, Palipala said: Too sad. Oh well, I have already bought your asset and I like it pretty much. I see a lot of potential in it. And I think that there aren't as much good Tree generators as you presume. Speedtree has a crazy price point, Onyx and XFrog haven't been updated for a long time now, and The Grove 3D (which is really nice) but doesn't have the flexibility Houdini provides. So quite some potential I hope that you won't totally abandon your Tree asset (or you should maybe state it as abandonware on Gumroad, so potential buyers know what to (not) expect in the future). Ultimately I would like to update it to use a system like this https://vimeo.com/229252148 . It's finding the time to work on it, though since people still seem to be enjoying it and using it maybe I'll be more inspired to find the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palipala Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Ah, the Anastasia Video, lovely, so inspirational and demotivational at the same time I know about your little spare time, you wrote about it, but I still bought your tool, because it has so much potential and is fun to use, too. So no regrets. I would really be totally happy, if you could find some time to bring your tool to a new level, something like Anastasia? nahh don't want to think about this, would cost me my sleep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efxlab Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 is the product is working with Houdini 17 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vexosaur Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 2 hours ago, efxlab said: is the product is working with Houdini 17 ? Haven't tested it but I don't see why it wouldn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelD Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 On 17.10.2018 at 12:30 AM, Vexosaur said: Haven't tested it but I don't see why it wouldn't. Hi! I wonder how to learn to make such cool tools by myself. Can you please direct me to your learning resources? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vexosaur Posted December 26, 2018 Author Share Posted December 26, 2018 (edited) On 18/12/2018 at 11:21 AM, MichaelD said: Hi! I wonder how to learn to make such cool tools by myself. Can you please direct me to your learning resources? Thank you! For this sort of thing I didn't really have any learning resource, honestly the best way to learn(for me anyway) is to just try make things. Start simply, all this stuff is just lots of simply steps layered on top of each other. Doing tutorials will only get you so far, having to problem solve for your own projects will teach you so much more and it will stick a lot better...even if it does take ten times longer to make something to start with lol. Here are a few useful resources though: http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/?title=Houdini https://vimeo.com/anopara https://www.sidefx.com/learn/getting_started/ also research papers are really useful for somethings, https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/23/picado/seashells/introdeng.html like this one I used for my procedural shell tool. Edited December 26, 2018 by Vexosaur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmi Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Thanks for shareing. When active Tree_maker1,houdini crash. I use Houdini 16.5.439. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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