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…
took me touching it on and off for a year i think before it really clicked for me. Though now it seems kinda simple, its basically blender geo nodes or unreal blue prints on steroids. Start simple but make something useful or fun too you. Maybe a setup where you can generate edge damage on a mesh, a simple cloth sim, or…
I personally spent some time studying Houdini decade or more ago but found a company would be reluctant to build their toolset on Houdini base. Same story in a way with Substance Designer actually which nobody uses really but me. Then I found all I ever wanted to do in Houdiny like complex arrays and scatter systems are…
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.