Thanks poopipe. That Katana web page couldn't even explain what it is exactly . Sounds like some niche thing for something very specific in complicated VFX pipeline. While in fact I just need an interactive landscape modeller with good scattering tools and more or less instant visual feedback. Preferably working with…
You mean with Octane or Redshift ? I actually did tried to learn it 10 years ago . Simple things took 100x time vs even 3d max. Blender nodes now looks so much more logically intuitive for me and what's a big plus totally optional. But I haven't even tried Houdini since.
For sort of background LODs where evrything baked in together . With trees , grass covered crumbled cityscapes , rendered clouds . Through last 20 years I used Vue, then Terragen, then ClarisseFX , then just Blender with Octane .The first two were non stop pain in your..... Clarisse was perfect with lots of procedural…