What do you guys think about Houdini?

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@Daniel.Wenograd;567328

Maya LT is made for mobile game development primarily, it has pretty severe limitations on polycount in the scene that limit what you can do with a highpoly bake for targeting PC or console spec. As far as I’m aware, it also has some limitations on what formats you can export as for working in other programs, and also doesn’t have support for third party plugins like the Nvidia PhysX plugin you need to make any cloth/physx effects in Unreal. It also doesn’t include any of their dynamics functions, so you won’t be able to make your own particles or export the vector fields for gpu particles.

Maya LT is by design, very limited. You get their modeling toolset, the basics of their rigging tools, and their animation tools, and that’s it, nothing else.

MayaLT is a perfect tool for indie gamedev, there’s not noticeable difference between MayaLT and Maya if your goal is modeling, rigging and animation. MayaLT has complete modeling part and there are minor limitations in rigging / animation parts, but you can live with that without any problems. As far as i know there’s not polycount restriction (especially if UE4 is installed on your machine) and you can communicate with other apps through FBX. MayaLT doesnt support plugins in general, but MayaLT 2016 Extension 2 supports Nvidia PhysX plugin (i.e. cloth for UE4). Do you need dynamics and particles?! Welcome to Houdini