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Man i'm stoked about Houdini 9.5 being available for OS-X as well. But i just don't know if i want to go through all the burden and hassle of learning such a complex program.

I tried a few years ago when Houdini was maybe a little less user-friendly as nowadays but then decided for another package (XSI).

And now i just wish i had the time.

Anyone with some insight of how long it approx. takes to know Houdini in & out (i know you never can't know everything)?

well, then even more so reason to replace those by osx

if its true that theyre running houdini secretly on osx already, it would be great to see it asap.

how come that big companies like softimage and side-fx have more trouble porting their program to osx than a small, young company like luxology that has their modo on mac-osx, windows and linux… (?)
i-ve heard brad from lux speaking about their nexus architecture and how fast it is to implement things and do ports without a problem. and i just wonder why bigger companies have such a struggle to port their programs onto a platform.

really, i-d love to see houdini on macosx. i just dont see point why there is still irix and solaris versions but no osx?!

come on side-fx, kill irix/ solaris and give us houdini on osx…
now apple is on intel anyway and there is no more excuse for no good opengl in osx.

so please side fx > HOUDINI FOR OSX NOW!!!