What is Tribe?
Tribe is a framework and toolset, which allows the importing and rendering of Houdini crowds in alternate DCC's and renderers.
What is the current status of Tribe?
Tribe is now exclusively licensed.
Which DCC's and renderers are supported
Arnold: Maya, Houdini, Standalone
Katana: v3.5+
Technical Information
Framework
- C++ and Python API to read and write custom file formats
- Easily extendible
- Could accomodate open source or proprietary file formats at a low level without affecting the higher level classes.
Render procedurals
- Utilises the Tribe API to process Tribe data and skin agents at render time.
- Multithreaded
- Can be run in a DCC or standalone
- Low memory footprint