Houdini Main Changelogs

21.0.160

Introduced a new kma_fur::2 with GGX wetness lobe, which covers a top of all other lobes.

Mon. November 4, 2024
19.5.1150

Fixed a crash in the Unpack USD SOP when importing an invalid NURBS curve primitive.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.157

Nested dielectrics priority 0 is no longer reserved as special value for disabling the feature. Scenes that have transmissive materials with priority 0 mixed with higher priorities may appear different.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.157

Nested dielectrics priority 0 is no longer reserved as special value for disabling the feature.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.157

Fixed an issue with Bullet's soft constraints which could cause unexpected rotation behaviour in certain situations when the rest length was non-zero.

Fri. November 1, 2024
20.5.405

Bumped the HDK ABI version due to addition of extra volume properties in BRAY_Types.h.

Fri. November 1, 2024
20.5.405

Added a new object property "Volume Velocity Blur Mode" to select alterative methods of applying motion blur to volumes.

Fri. November 1, 2024
20.5.405

Added "Volume Shadow Step Rate" property to Render Geometry Settings to allow for faster shadows at added bias.

Fri. November 1, 2024
20.5.405

Fixed a possible issue in VEX where the optimizer might have generated an "fcmp uno" instruction.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.157

Added a new command line option (`--auto-tile`) which will break up the render into tiles and automatically stitch the image together at the end of the render. This allows memory efficient rendering of very large resolution images.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.157

Added support for a volatile select only mode for controls in the Apex animate state using the hotkey S.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.157

Fixed a bug where the Reset Custom button on the APEX Scene Animate SOP could fail to remove specific files from within a packed folder.

Fri. November 1, 2024
20.5.405

Fixed a bug where husk would try to use undefined values for resolution, pixel aspect, or data window property if there are multiple render products and there are products that defines the property while the first product doesn't.

Fri. November 1, 2024
20.5.405

Fix issues in light and material linker when changing the link type. Also fix rule card size issues.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.157

Apex Spline Nodes V3: The "stretchsquash" port has been separated into "stretchscale" and "squashscale" for individual control.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.157

Apex Spline Nodes 3.0 - Separated the "stretchsquash" port into "stretchscale" and "squashscale" for individual control over their effects.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.157

Fix issues in light and material linker when changing the link type. Also fix rule card size issues.

Fri. November 1, 2024
21.0.156

Parallized data transfer and data conversion when importing height fields into Unreal from Houdini, decreasing processing time.

Fri. November 1, 2024
20.5.404

Fixed a crash in the Unpack USD SOP when importing an invalid NURBS curve primitive.

Thu. October 31, 2024
21.0.156

Fixed a crash in the Unpack USD SOP when importing an invalid NURBS curve primitive.

Thu. October 31, 2024
21.0.156

Disabled the request timeout in connections created from the hrpyc Python module. This fixes timeouts when sending long running operations (i.e. loading a .hip file) to a remote Houdini.

Thu. October 31, 2024
20.5.404

The "tmp:" asset resolve HDK sample for USD plugins now supports the use of a resolver context string to override the value of HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR.

Thu. October 31, 2024
21.0.156

The "tmp:" asset resolve HDK sample for USD plugins now supports the use of a resolver context string to override the value of HOUDINI_TEMP_DIR.

Thu. October 31, 2024
20.5.404

Fixed an issue where HoudiniGL/HoudiniVK could, in some situations, pick up the camera's transform matrix from the shutter-open time (as opposed to the actual frame time)

Thu. October 31, 2024
21.0.155

Added Efit, Fit, Fit01, Fit10, Fit11 apex callbacks

Wed. October 30, 2024