daisuke Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I have a new friend who is starting to become interested in 3d world.. surprisingly he said that he has an old 3d learning book so I looked at it.. It was a printed Houdini 2.5 manual!!! I quite like how the tips are written in the manual. Can these techniques be used in current version? Funny thing is that he does not know when or where he got it from.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I imagine that for the nodes and expressions, it would mostly be applicable. For the UI, obviously no. However, parameters may have changed labels over the years or behave in slightly different ways. Plus some nodes no longer exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 wanna sell those manual?... I'm definetly up for those ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisuke Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 its so precious! hehe! i'll post a pic up later! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cellchuk Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 hehe yes. pls put some pics of the manual... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Amion Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Where there .pdf version back then as well? Perhaps SideFX would be so gentle and release it to the public. Anyways cool stuff , very rare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiak Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Where there .pdf version back then as well? Perhaps SideFX would be so gentle and release it to the public. Anyways cool stuff , very rare From what I remember, 3.0 definitely had PDF manuals. It even had a separate volume called Cokkbook with all sorts of tips&tricks...similar to the Houdini on the spot book. I used to have a v4 DVD (CD?) and the belonging black spiraled tutorial book, but I have no idea where it is now. Also used to have a v4 (?) GUI introduction VHS presented by Jeff Wagner..again, no clue where it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 As far as I know, the Expression Cookbook material is incorporated into the online help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiak Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Oh, it wasn't just expressions..I remember at least couple of chapters on Lsystems, the Isosurface SOP (talking about how to make a cheese with some expressions ), parachute modeling and whatnot.. Most of them made their ways to the main help, I guess others were just deprecated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisuke Posted March 7, 2008 Author Share Posted March 7, 2008 Hi guys. The batteries for my camera are dead.. ill post pix as soon as i get some new batteries! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisuke Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 There you go! I took some pix! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamis Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 omg that actualy looks like relivant information !! Now we need a scanned PDF you know that don't you..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasyrov Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Hey daisuke! Scan it please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Gary Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Hi all! Actually i have all these PDFs on my computer. :) There were sooo good i kept them ( mine came along with Houdini 5.x, i guess it's even better but from what i see, they look identical) and i still use them once in a while to check things. ( That's the doc i used intensively to learn Houdini at that time, it was well written, well organized, and some relevant info may only be here). I've never felt very comfortable with the html help actually. The expression cookbook and the l-systems were very nice actually. Nice tutorials as well. I'm gonna ask if i can upload them somewhere. -d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 We'd be more than willing to host them here if you're allowed (although I know you have your own site ). M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I thought the L-System docs are incorporated into the online help too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisuke Posted March 15, 2008 Author Share Posted March 15, 2008 Hi guys. I don't know if I can scan all the pages.. I do not have a scanner but it sounds tedius to scan all the pages.. But good news that Gary has them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 don't bother scanning anything...these pdfs are around... the only reason we haven't uploaded them to the site is that in some cases they're not that useful and they're SESI property... if we get the OK from SESI we'll put them up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamis Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 so when are these pdf's comming ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 If I remember I'll mail someone at SESI on Monday about it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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