Also, Often when I asked questions on their forum, I was met with 'code-snobbery' from other users (not the Developers, I should mention) who thought that I should learn to code not mess about with nodes. That was quite offputting. You'll find the same position/recommendation in Houdini's community...

@Bellsey I haven't played with Mudbox in ages. Like 5 yrs if not more. Probably more. Even then, I remember how the graphics card was essential. I'll look to see if there's still a trial version to see what's changed. I agree with whatever pluses you've mentioned here, but Zbrush does have lots of f...

The risk of investing in small products developed by small teams does not emerge only from the high probability of failure as a business, but from being bought out as well. Usually the original company loses its control over the direction of development or any other important decision regarding the ...

But unlike Silo, Mudbox is owned by Autodesk which has the cash to make it a real solution (again) I, for one, would love to see it around Zbrush feature wise and with a faster viewport - it's GPU based I think. Given that one can save a .obj file for your sculpt and raster images for the textures, ...

Or maybe a "Fabric person" will chime in to put an end to the speculation. Let's hold hands and hope together

Certainly, introducing more criteria will yield a more accurate result regarding any approximation. Do you think that s/w industry fares better than startups in other industries when it comes to success rates? My intuition, which is of course not data, tells that it's quite possible that s/w startup...

Mathaeus wrote: ↑28 Oct 2017, 14:14 my crystal bowl probably is not the best source....

Especially if you fill it with milk&cereal... hahaha!

Am I being cynical if I say this doesn't surprise me at all? Not that I'm happy about it or the fact that I fell like I'll have to pull a "I told you so", but I did express skepticism (in some forgotten thread) about investing time and money in such a small platform/company. It's always a ...

Much better now IMO. Feels more like a forum rather than a CSS lacking html page.

I haven't read all the 4 pages of this thread, so if this has been mentioned already, please just file it as "+1" regarding the issue: I'm a UHD user and I welcome the bigger font but dislike the fact that the text section (i.e. the forum itself w/o the top gallery) stretches the whole dis...

Pretty cool!
I like that look of hefty metal, excavators and old tanks have.

Yep

Thus far Houdini has come with a free Apprentice license. You don't have to register anywhere, just download an installer from their website and select the appropriate license type when installing the program.
I don't think H16 will be any different.

No need for apologizing, no offense was taken. I agree somewhat with what you're saying. "somewhat" because I agree with the principle that you think it describes what's happening. That is, a ship with too many captains. Or an army with too many generals and too few soldiers - in this case...

@Mathaeus There's was no one being persecuted (I'm assuming that's what you mean by "tortured") in that thread. I'll grant you that there were a few naysayers and still are, they're everywhere, but in general one should expect opposition, both for good and bad reasons, when trying to chang...

Awesome stuff in here!