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| The one thing that you get with Houdini for sure (not sure what Maya and others provide in that region) is the constant possibility of changing your geometry type and going back and forth between geometry types. Say you start with a primitive because you don't need more than one point and want to keep your setup light, but for a different operation need to have a polygonal mesh so you can manipulate segments of the faces, and further down the line you would like a Nurbs surface because you would like UV coordinates for free (purely hypothetical example of course). It is very customary in Houdini to convert your geometry in multiple ways depending on the operation you are doing. In C4d if you wanted to create a surface by lofting or sweeping curves, you are unable to access the data that surface represents unless you "bake" it, which means you have to keep a backup of your "live" geometry in case you need to make changes down the line etc... There might be ways to access this data in C4d using Python, but that is beyond the reach of the every day user... On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:57 AM, coen wrote:
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