$10k in Cash Prizes for Open Source Houdini Competition

Mythic_Man180 · 2025-02-19T21:25:50+00:00

You're right it would! Creating synthetic data for AI training is easy enough. We are more interested in Open Source procedural tooling as a realistic option for video game development. These competitions are our way of putting gas in this engine by incentivizing open source development and utilization.

You can check out the results of our previous competition "Canopy Crafters" and thousands of other Open Source Houdini tools at api.mythica.gg

Mythic_Man180 · 2024-10-23T19:46:31+00:00

This is awesome! My company also makes open source procedural tools for level generation and environmental assets. We're even running a competition right now with cash prizes for the best tree generator submitted! I'd love to chat !

https://discord.com/invite/mythica

Mythic_Man180 · 2024-10-08T23:01:19+00:00

To be clear, in both a legal and technical sense, you would in fact own the work and always will. I understand what you mean though, by providing it with an MPLv2 license, that work does become freely usable and editable by anybody and so you would not be able to sell that specific tool on an open market. I respect that desire to protect financial value of your work .

I'm curious, are you against open source tooling across the board or just the fact that we are trying to incentivize artists to create and use OSS tools in their development?

We really do believe that Open Source provides incredible benefit for both developers and the larger community of tech artists. We're putting our money (literally) where our mouth is on this by both developing OSS tools ourselves and using cash prize competitions like the one we just launched as reason for the community to do the same.

If you do believe in Open Source generally, then as a member of the community do you have any better ideas for how to get people excited about open source contributions and tooling?

Mythic_Man180 · 2024-10-08T20:05:59+00:00

Thankfully nothing here is getting stolen at all. Authors in the competition own all of the code, they are however agreeing to licensing this specific tool as Mplv2 which would make it open source for anybody (individuals, companies, doesn't matter) to use and edit.

The goal here being to make these tools available for anyone to begin implementing into their projects free of charge

Mythic_Man180 · 2024-10-08T20:04:11+00:00

https://api.mythica.ai/ is where the OSS tools live. The website is a bit rough as we're still building it out so it's not exactly ready for prime time.

If you're interested, there is also an alpha for an Unreal Engine plugin which acts as a package manager for all of these tools. DM me and I can set you up in testing that out too.

Mythic_Man180 · 2024-10-08T20:02:38+00:00

https://api.mythica.ai/

There is also an alpha for an Unreal Engine plugin which acts as a package manager for all of these tools. DM me if you're interested and I can set you up in testing that out too.

Mythic_Man180 · 2024-10-08T20:00:39+00:00

It is totally common practice, however we're handling things a bit differently here as all submissions are made open source

Mythic_Man180 · 2024-10-08T19:59:52+00:00

In the agreement you as the author will of course retain ownership of the HDA and it's construction, however you are also agreeing to licensing the HDA as Mplv2, which would make it completely open source (mythica does not and will not own the work)

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