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benco

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Finally some insights on the new UI. Now, I kinda not understand what the complaint is all about. At least from those screenshots in the book it seems many things work as they do/did in H8, only the "skin" is different and it doesn't look bad at all in my opinion.

Dragos

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Finally some insights on the new UI. Now, I kinda not understand what the complaint is all about. At least from those screenshots in the book it seems many things work as they do/did in H8, only the "skin" is different and it doesn't look bad at all in my opinion.

Dragos

I had chance to use Houdini 9 a little on some recent SESI training and for the most part I agree with Dragos. If you can use Houdini 8 you can jump straight in and get going with Houdini 9 as most things work as you expect. Pane linking is different as you can read for yourself in the extract from Craig Zerouni's book that was posted in this thread. I like the new tabbed panes and the shelf is useful. The new node design makes better use of screenspace in networks.

john

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Looks like its been improved a lot. Can't wait. :)

I think I'll mostly be interested to see how well Python is integrated - like if it's just a cheezy non-Pythonic set of bindings, auto-generated as an afterthought, or if it's actually something thats been designed from the ground up to work well with Python.

Not that I have anything against ALL auto-generated bindings. If it's a full-blown API, something like SWIG is probably the only reasonable way to do expose everything in a way that's manageable (and I hope we do have something like that for the HDK! ;)). But when it comes to the application's main scripting language, having something thats actually been developed with Python in mind adds a lot to its usability.

Anyway, can't wait to find out. :)

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I can't speak for how you will personally feel about the 9 HOM Python API, but it's not just a cheesy swig binding of what we had already -- it's a specifically designed API with an emphasis on Python (but yes, it's generated with swig).

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