i am fully aware of the negavtive connitations of the word however using any negative word in assosiation with an inanimate object (weird pun here I guess lol) has never been an issue ie. this junk car of your is ass.Tekano wrote:ah ok well in UK a 'retard' is like a severely mentally challenged person and is an extreme insult. cultural differences aside using the word retard in this fashion was wrong. for you to use it in a sentence (and get away with it being used properly) would be something like.pluMmet wrote:
Retard means slow... SideFX is very late to the party being @ release 13 without a proper character animation method.
"I believe the development of character animation & track mixing of clips in Houdini is happening at an extremely retarded pace"
and yet you wrote:so yes you did call him 'slow' which again is pretty insulting, no?pluMmet wrote: Am I missing something wonderfull or are You a Full Retard?
but anyway yes, they (Houdini) I guess, have not had much demand for that side of things yet, even after 13 releases. also have you visited the sideFX forum for Softimage users and asked this question? it may be possible to wrap some kind of a GUI into a lot of functions, a digital asset or whatever its called to do some kind of track based editing and blending in Houdini.. who knows if anyone tried yet?
finally, just want to add, old Softimage aint going anywhere for a while. I intend to be using it well into its 30's so stick with it whilst checking out other options and until there is better and have the luxury to do so, then don't switch and use both when in the transition... As for interop between future apps and animation clips of your rigs... not much hope there unless there becomes some kind of universal standard for rigging which I have not seen yet, but you could get some milage using a motion capture format like .bvh etc but do alembic animation clips appear in the animation mixer i wonder? if not its simple to make them into shapes and bake out the results of your mixing. so as long as you are good to get stuff in and out you are OK, just saying..
I refrained from being nasty to the fellow even after he ignored my reply that I had indeed searched for the information and he again suggested that I was inept in not understanding his brilliance.
As far as my (our) problems with animation packages I love Messiah Studio for animating but I don't know honestly how to get proper deformations out of it much less take the less then enhanced defformations (muscle bulges and wrinkles, self collisions) to another package for futher work so I would just use it to create mocap files to put into a package like Houdini for futher refinement but without a proper animation mixer....
Pipeline is a big topic but to me it's just a word for packages that lack being strung together creating issue after issue hence I want that pipeline to be as short as possible.
I knew from years back researching Houdini that it sucked at character animation and modeling but that was years ago and I had no reason to believe that it was such a retarded program