Houdini Main Changelogs

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
20.5.389

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
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
20.5.389

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

Wed. October 16, 2024
20.5.389

Fixed reporting of some of the OpenImageIO texture statistics.

Wed. October 16, 2024
20.5.388

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

Tue. October 15, 2024
20.5.388

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

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
20.5.388

As of 20.0, the OpenCL DOP will not strip underscores from the name of a binding when generating the HAS_ macros.

Tue. October 15, 2024
20.5.388

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

Tue. October 15, 2024
20.5.388
  • 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

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
20.5.388

Added a "Keep Node Names" toggle to APEX Script when decompiling to allow disabling the creation of metadata for node names in the created script.

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
20.5.388

Hide several unuse attributes on APEX Configure Controls. Set better default values for the parameters Rig Source and Guide Source

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
20.5.388

Fixed a case where the viewer could cook DOPnets when it didn't need to.

Tue. October 15, 2024
21.0.139

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

Tue. October 15, 2024