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SideFX just dropped a playlist of foundational Houdini stuff. I haven't watched it yet, but should be a great primer for new users.

Thanks! I had to keep my original 24 rotation segments for other parts of the model but luckily I managed to down step from 24 edges to 8 pretty easily. Cheers

The way to get the nicest closure on this would be to drop the radial segments to 8 so that you can close the top with a perfect quad-cap with no complex poles, like so... CBR

Ever seen a Hamster in a track suit with 2 Samurai swords ? you have now. i'll probably do some variations of this one with some glocks and stuff XD

Superb ! But needs more fur 😉 CBR

The thing that interests me about Houdini is you get A LOT of power since it's all node-based, it's all refined and it's working in a unified architecture. FX, Modeling, Animation, Look Dev, Rendering.. it's all there. Unlike Blender, Maya and C4D, you don't need an addons/plugins to fill the gaps, that ultimately don't work anyways in nodes. It's just getting over that initial hump... nay.. MOUNTAIN with Houdini.

The node examples shown here seem somewhat labourious for little benefit. I can handle a redshift material with ~20 nodes, but that's about it. More than that, and (for me) nodes become just too complex to maintain and troubleshoot. All I really wanted from C4D is: keep the goods, but make it 100x faster. I don't want to learn an entirely new and unfinished workflow paradigm to get a speed boost in C4D. If I wanted that, I could just hop to Houdini, where everything is ready and waiting. Packing up the node complexity into easy-to-use capsules was a smart and promising move to integrate node-power into the classic workflow - but so far, I don't see capsules that I would use on a daily basis. Perhaps that is just a documentation/tutorial problem as well. tl;dr -- I just neeed speeeeed!