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After years of languishing in obscurity, Side Effects has finally cast its gaze onto its forgotten stepchild; the HDK. For those of you who don’t know, the HDK is basically the best way to add extra functionality to Houdini. Granted it’s not needed that often, and with VEX and now Python filling the mid-level toolset it’s only called on in specific circumstances, but when it is then you can do amazing things with it.

Well, you could if you could make heads or tails of it all anyway. The HDK’s downfall has always been in its documentation and the steep learning curve. But now with 10.0, SESI has upgraded their HDK docs to include actual documentation. That, plus the examples and intro guides should help a lot of people get over that initial hurdle and start to dive into the HDK.

Have fun: http://www.sidefx.com/docs

Please see how Edward implements “Seamless Image Cloning” in SOPs from this SIGGRAPH paper:

LINK TO PDF

…in this thread:

LINK TO THREAD

Just letting you know that we’re aware of the gallery outage. Unfortunately in upgrading the forum it trashed all the backend functionality of the gallery (logins and all that). We are aware of it and are doing our best to bring it back up as soon as possible.

While you wait though, why not consider adding some knowledge to the wiki?

Marc

Noticed a useful DPX plug-in for Houdini was submitted to the Houdini Exchange. Thanks Mark Visser!