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How long to learn Houdini?

jordank95
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I am so overwhelmed with where to start learning Houdini. I want to start learning this to incorporate into my skillset and add another tool that I can use in the studio I work for. Roughly how long until I can start using this in a professional setting? Can anyone recommend a good starting point to help ease my mind? Thank you.

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  • jStins
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    jStins interpolator
    I've flirted with Houdini a few times and made good progress with the learning paths here: https://www.sidefx.com/learn/

    My flirtations have never evolved into a full blown romance, but I still see Houdini making eyes at me from across the room every now and then. As far as how long it takes to get good enough to use it in a professional capacity? well... 

    Farmfield on X torstenebker s8n Haha this is still my
  • poopipe
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    poopipe grand marshal polycounter
    that's not far from the truth.

    I often wonder if its harder coming into Houdini with a technical background than it is without - personally I find it quite restrictive and weird as hell but that's probably because I could write the code(poorly) to do the thing myself and I don't like having to bend my design to the peculiarities of the system

    anyway

    a word(s) of advice. 
    learn a tool because you have a job to do and you think that tool will help you achieve it - not because you heard its a good idea to know it. 


  • jordank95
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    jordank95 polycounter lvl 9
    poopipe said:

    a word(s) of advice. 
    learn a tool because you have a job to do and you think that tool will help you achieve it - not because you heard its a good idea to know it. 



    Solid advice. Though I would be learning it knowing that it would be helpful in the pipeline for an upcoming game I will be working on. Could we get around not using it? Of course...but I've always wanted to learn it and I think it would be beneficial in the coming year for me to know it. 
  • poopipe
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    poopipe grand marshal polycounter
    what sort of thing are we talking about? 

  • Benjammin
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    Benjammin greentooth
    I've been learning in on and off for a couple years and feel relatively competent - I'm able to solve problems and do some VEX, but I'm still talking to chatGPT a lot (which is its own learning curve...). 
    If you have specific problems to solve in your pipeline then you can spend a bit of time getting used to the fundamentals then zero in on the specific things you need to solve. 
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