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…
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…