Morgan Visconti

Wanted to jump in here and say that as a long time Mac user and using Houdini for 10 years, I would be super excited to see a native renderer (XPU) that took full use of the M(x) GPU. It's something that Redshift has offered for a few years now and it's fast and because of that I upgraded to the M1 Studio mac (as opposed going PC). I know Mac is a smaller market for CGI but when it works it really does work. The problem always seems to be that Mac falls behind on development schedule and sometimes off the cliff all together. Also, I have to say it - as iPhone is getting flack for monopolizing cell phone use, I often resent 'only works on NVIDIA hardware'. Going out on a limb here but I would drop my redshift subscription in a heartbeat if I could render in XPU at the same speed or better.

So... the Houdini 19.5.569 for macOS Intel Launcher update fixes this. The newest downloads suggested are defaulting to the Mac type I have, which is Macosx_Armt64.

As of the latest production release, I'm downloading only the M1 builds for Mac. Is there a way to set a preference in Houdini Launcher so that it defaults to those kinds of builds? Currently it only shows the latest x86 version unless I go to "Choose Another Version" and select an M1 build from the list.