Houdini Plugin

[andreas-stromberg-sb]

I've been really impressed with this render lately, great work. Is there any plans for doing a houdini plugin? https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini/

There is some documentation on it here, I haven't looked that deep into it myself. https://www.sidefx.com/docs/hdk/_h_d_k__s_o_h_o__examples.html

Considering how slow the integrated mantra render engine in houdini is, I think there is room for a high quality free render engine.

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[Dade916]

Is there any plans for doing a houdini plugin?

None of the current developer has Houdini so it is unlikely to happen in a near future. We would like but it is about finding someone with the know-how, time and will to write an integration with Houdini (for free): it is not easy. In general, this is true, not only for Houdini, but also for most other (commercial) applications like Cinema4D, etc.

[andreas-stromberg-sb]

There is the free houdini apprentice version, although I'm unsure if it supports third party plugins. I might put up a bounty for this though, and time will tell if someone is interested and has the know how.

[Dade916]

I might put up a bounty for this though, and time will tell if someone is interested and has the know how.

If Houdini has some popular forum used by many users (like https://blenderartists.org for Blender) you may want to try to open a thread there to gather both users interested and, may be, find a developer suited for the task.

[mjutrzenka]

lux render would be dope for Houdini..

[oaschwab]

I'd also be willing to pitch in for a houdini plugin bounty like I did for the blender version. Luxcore is really an amazing rendering engine.

[danwills]

I'd be willing to try to help with this. (however see below, I think it's probably moot now!)

I don't think I could do it on my own, but if someone within the Lux project can lend some support while I/we try to build a bridge, I'd be very keen to translate that idea into actions! I am not a SOHO expert, but I know other Houdini output very well (I'm a senior pipeline TD at a medium-sized VFX company that uses Houdini a fair bit.) I think I could help with Houdini integration.

Maybe this idea is somewhat made-irrelevant by USD/hydra, all we really need is a Lux 'hydra delegate', right? Looks like I'm miiles behind, and there's already a hydra delegate: https://github.com/jbgann/LuxCoreRenderUSD

Anyhoo, if you want any support with Houdini-anything, I'm keen!

[NicTanghe]

Hello, what's the state of this ? Is there a hydra delegate and nodes i can use in Houdini ?