Houdini Main Changelogs

21.0.142

Fixed setting the "uniform" toggle on string parameter of the MaterialX USD shade networks loaded into Edit Material Network LOP.

Thu. October 17, 2024
21.0.141

Added is_visible boolean argument to hou.Geometry.packToFolder(). It controls the visibility of the added packed folder.

Wed. October 16, 2024
20.0.861

The Remesh to Camera SOP and the Houdini Ocean Procedural LOP now have an option to choose the space for measuring geometry in the camera Z direction.

Wed. October 16, 2024
20.0.861

The Houdini Ocean Procedural now properly measures edge length for use with the Anti-Alias Blur parameter in object space. This fix only affects oceans that have a scaling transform applied to them.

Wed. October 16, 2024
20.0.861

The Houdini Ocean Procedural now deletes a number of interal primitive attributes, using less memory for high resolution ocean rendering.

Wed. October 16, 2024
20.0.861

Fixed a case where point selection on point primitives could select incorrect or invalid ids

Wed. October 16, 2024
21.0.141

Fixed a regression from 20.5.375 which caused agent blendshapes to not appear in the Vulkan viewport.

Wed. October 16, 2024
21.0.141

The Remesh to Camera SOP and the Houdini Ocean Procedural LOP now have an option to choose the space for measuring geometry in the camera Z direction.

Wed. October 16, 2024
21.0.141

The Houdini Ocean Procedural now properly measures edge length for use with the Anti-Alias Blur parameter in object space. This fix only affects oceans that have a scaling transform applied to them.

Wed. October 16, 2024
21.0.141

The Houdini Ocean Procedural now deletes a number of interal primitive attributes, using less memory for high resolution ocean rendering.

Wed. October 16, 2024
21.0.141

PDG now automatically localizes file attributes referenced using `@attrib` during in-process work item cooks. Previously accessing file attributes would return unlocalized paths, which had to manually handled by the caller.

The old behavior can be restored by passing localize=0 to the new expression functions `pdgattribfile(..)` and `pdgattribfilevals(..)`, which various options for evaluating file attributes.

Wed. October 16, 2024
21.0.140

XPU: shadow linking now supported for up to 4 rules/groups per scene

Wed. October 16, 2024
21.0.141

Fixed a bug in the Curve state where the xform pivot would be reset to the centroid of the selected points at the end of any point or handle drag.

Wed. October 16, 2024
20.0.861

Fixed a bug in the hrpyc module that caused the module to not work with HOM enum values.

Wed. October 16, 2024
21.0.140

Fixed a bug where deep images would contain invalid samples for materials with subsurface scatter under "Path Traced" convergence mode.

Tue. October 15, 2024
21.0.140

Fixed an error where the last frame of a video exported by FFmpeg could be missing.

Tue. October 15, 2024
20.0.860

As of 20.0.96, the OpenCL DOP will not strip underscores from the name of a binding when generating the HAS_ macros.

Tue. October 15, 2024
20.0.860

The Grain POP will now work with target stiffness attributes and target weight attributes.

Tue. October 15, 2024
21.0.140

Make @vdb.sample(...) return a float3 instead of a cnanovdb_Vec3F in OpenCL nodes. Fix the default values of @vdb.sample(...), @vdb.getAt(...), and @vdb for vector and varfloat VDB bindings (when no VDB is wired in) to be float3, not float.

Tue. October 15, 2024
21.0.140

Fixed an Animation Editor crash when viewing pinned channels from APEX rigs.

Tue. October 15, 2024
21.0.140
  • Fixed a bug in the importer that caused uv layers after uv2 to be loadedincorrectly.
  • uv* and Cd attributes are now properly tagged with the correct attributetype.
Tue. October 15, 2024
21.0.140

Fixed a python error in the Curve state when using "Fuse Branch" immediately after entering the python state.

Tue. October 15, 2024
20.0.859

Performance optimizationis for run length encoding.

Tue. October 15, 2024
21.0.139

Removed deprecated instancer code (variations and MSIC) and simplied instancer code.

Tue. October 15, 2024
21.0.140

Fixed a crash with the Flipbook ROP when a render hook is installed.

Tue. October 15, 2024