Modeler 2023 for Houdini

I think people feel a bit intimidated by the Houdini environment, the addon itself is actually pretty solid, and regarding Max, the pro tools (I think it was called) was the first plugin I bought for max, it was revolutionary at that point and Max was regarded as one of the best modeling tools at the time it was integrated into the ribbon regardless al the backlash (circa 2009), the problem with Max is the lack of innovation, development, the high price tag the bugs, the crashes, the time it (at least used to) take to open, the old and bloated codebase, the horrible treatement towards the customers, the huge size, the malware behaviour of the satellite autodesk apps, etc. Even talking about said modeling tools, when Max’s decline kind of was starting to be felt you could see how there was lack of interest in better integrating these tools and they just seated there without any further significant development.

It’s not that this plugin is panaceic by any means, but it is nice, the real value is that as a user I don’t want Sidefx to waste resources in an area where most of the times it does not matter where you model, but as a plugin it still gives you the flexibility to do it quickly in a Houdinistic way, with a solid plugin that is geared mostly to people that as myself feel just really comftrable in houdini’s environment, so I feel that the comments have been a bit harsh and they come mostly (in my opinion) from a lack of undertanding about who this might be geared towards (I might be completely wrong).

Lastly I think there’s something to be said about the great quality in Alexey’s addons, I think this should be considered since it is someone that puts so much care on each iteration probably has a target in mind and houdini is suis generis enough to maybe lend a process applied to it as a target to be misunderstood