I've been playing with Houdini again recently...I forgot how much it rocks.
Out of all the 3d programs I've tried, I think this one has to be the most 
intuitive (besides bryce)...and the procedural modification pallete is just 
freakin sweet. Plus it supports Python. :-D

Blender could definitely learn a few things about usability from 
Houdini....blenders interface is a NIGHTMARE....I can't even find the 4 
window view button...

Has anyone tried Modo? It looks interesting.

ian

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"[GDS|Entropy]" <gds### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Blender could definitely learn a few things about usability from
> Houdini....

Blender could learn a few things about usability from - well, any software
that has been ever written whose name does not start with "B" and end with
"lender".

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[GDS|Entropy] wrote:
> I can't even find the 4 window view button...

It's a drop-down list at the top, between "help" and "scene", with the label 
"SR:" at the start.  Note that you might need to configure it for yourself - 
I don't remember what the defaults were, and I probably changed something 
before I knew how to work the program.

Python's blender interface is a bit of a joke. The documentation covers only 
the class methods, not the methods on the instances. (E.g., they tell you 
the methods to instantiate an object, but not how to work with the object 
you've instantiated.)  Plus, doing obvious things like "duplicate this 
object, then move it +10X" works, until you then use a different script to 
move it, at which point you find the axes have been moved but the mesh 
itself hasn't. The mesh is drawn in the new place, and if you say from the 
keyboard "Move this, oh never mind" then it stays in the new place, but 
there are other operations that move the mesh back to the place you 
duplicated it from.

At that point, I gave up fiddling with the blender python stuff. If I can't 
even reliably move objects around with python, why would I bash my head 
against it? I'd rather use POV-Ray, which is at least reliable. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
   unable to read this, even at arm's length."

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"[GDS|Entropy]" <gds### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I've been playing with Houdini again recently...I forgot how much it rocks.
> Out of all the 3d programs I've tried, I think this one has to be the most
> intuitive (besides bryce)...and the procedural modification pallete is just
> freakin sweet. Plus it supports Python. :-D
>
> Blender could definitely learn a few things about usability from
> Houdini....blenders interface is a NIGHTMARE....I can't even find the 4
> window view button...
>
> Has anyone tried Modo? It looks interesting.

Hey, it's Blender bashing time again at the povray newsgroups!  I wonder if the
criticism here will make any difference to Blender devs if they don't even
listen to the criticism in their own forums! :D

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