Houdini 20.5 Keynote: Expert Analysis

[@ocdvfx]

I really appreciated this video, hype to see you post again. I'm most excited to play with Copernicus as well as the new Solaris updates

[@NelsonLim]

Thanks @ocdvfx!

[@RIPxBlackHawk]

If you haven't had 2h, here is 45 minutes

[@NelsonLim]

I still recommend people watch the keynote if they can. Personally, I felt my coverage and thoughts would appeal to someone who wanted to hear what a professional thought about the features besides the official marketing message.

[@RussellFincher]

75 minutes shorter plus valuable commentary

[@RIPxBlackHawk]

@NelsonLim And that's what I was looking for. But you targeted a time conscious viewer when you mentioned the time saving. I think those that can't free up 2h will also struggle to free up 45 minutes. This is why your statement is a bit comical to me. Now that you've suggested we should add 2h for the original, makes the time-saving comment stand completely out of place.

[@MrLetsgojazz]

Sweet!

[@NelsonLim]

Thanks!

[@3D_TUTS]

Good video! Man how old are you? You have so much experience and you look max 25-27?

[@NelsonLim]

Thanks. Must be the youthful Asian genes. But I’m not that young. 🤫

[@Copa20777]

Thanks bro, subd🎉

[@NelsonLim]

You’re welcome!

[@AncienRegimeStudios]

With the importance of OpenCL and Vulkan in most of this it begs the obvious question; what is the best GPU for the new advances in Houdini 20.5 with Solaris, and Copernicus? A week ago I was planning on building a new rig with the RTX 5090, it's ray and path tracing hardware and Cuda cores but in light of what you're saying about OpenCL and Copernicus is AMD Radeon's next top of the line GPU going to actually perform better than the RTX 5090?

[@NelsonLim]

I believe NVidia GPUs support OpenCL. At the moment, I tend to stay with NVidia as some GPU-accelerated tools only use Cuda and not OpenCL.