Based on our record, GDevelop seems to be a lot more popular than Houdini. While we know about 75 links to GDevelop, we've tracked only 4 mentions of Houdini. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Otherwise, Unity (3D) has tutorials for Unity, Houdini (vfx) has tutorials on their site (sidefx.com). Blender (3D) has a good community on reddit. For 2D animation the book "The Animator’s Survival Kit" is a common book people read in this reddit. Also lots of youtube tutorials. Search for whatever you want to learn ("how to paint grass in photoshop", "how to use animation in Blender", "how to animate... Source: over 1 year ago
Houdini is (a little) hard to learn, so the best you can do is focus on one area at the same time: Modeling, Vellum, Fluids, Particles, KineFx ... You can find a lot of free tutorials on sidefx.com. Source: almost 2 years ago
It sounds like you would need a lot of procedural geometry, which is done best with Houdini. But it does not do interactive web. Source: about 2 years ago
I also checked my license status from sidefx.com and it said everything was correct, but of course now I cant even login to the website and it just throws me a 500 Error Code when I login, asking me to login again. Ive emailed support but figured I might check here too while I'm at it. Source: about 3 years ago
It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community. Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects And https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-alternative-game-engines-a-curation- If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
I'm not really a game maker, but would like to give a shout out to the fabulous https://gdevelop.io/ It has everything you need, is free and its VISUAL PROGRAMMING is fab... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
Another engine that you can consider is GDevelop https://gdevelop.io. Source: about 1 year ago
If you’re down for a 2D project checkout GDevelop. It’s designed with a visual workflow in mind and programs with predefined actions and triggers, so if you’re comfortable laying out 2D assets if very easy to make them interactive, without knowing any code. Source: about 1 year ago
GDevelop is a free, no-code game engine that uses drag-and-drop functionality and menus to build games. It supports Javascript to impliment more complex code. To find out more go to – How to get started making a video game: GDevelop 5 (part one). Source: about 1 year ago
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