Houdini Main Changelogs
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Houdini 17.5.237 | Don't run a flipbook if the Output Images field is empty and the Flipbook to MPlay toggle is off. | yesterday |
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Houdini 17.5.237 | Dissolve SOP's selector can now use an existing primitive selection. | yesterday |
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Houdini 17.5.237 | DOP I/O nodes can now be cooked directly using the ROP Fetch TOP. | yesterday |
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Houdini 17.5.237 | Fixed an issue with batch work items in the ROP Fetch TOP node not preserving the incoming frame step size in all cases. | yesterday |
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Houdini 17.5.237 | Fixed a bug with setting up the tightness attribute in the Hair Clump SOP. This could lead to crashes, usually after cooking the SOP multiple times. | yesterday |
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Houdini 17.5.237 | Added an optional argument to pdg.Node.setExpression Python function to indicate that the expression consists of multi-line Python statements. The new argument defaults to False, so the behavior remains the same as before. | yesterday |
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Houdini 17.5.237 | Can now set a multiparameter length from the MaxScript API. Also updated the scripting documentation to provide more code samples of MaxScript API usage. | yesterday |
| Houdini 17.5.237 | Houdini is more relaxed in its check for Alembic archives that have changed on disk by other processes due to the overhead in performing this check. | yesterday | |
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Houdini 17.5.237 | Better shading of environment lights in HQ Lighting mode when no map is assigned to the light. | yesterday |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | Fixed an error when packaging a project when the plugin wasn't installed in the project's plugin folder but in the engine's. | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | Fixed a bug where input node names would not show up in Operator Path type parameters | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | Improved performance for vertex UV marshalling from Houdini into 3ds Max | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | Added HScript functions to access work item attributes, input files and output files. These are alternatives to the existing @syntax, but make it easier to programatically specify the attribute name and component index. For the input/output functions (pdginput(..) and pdgoutput(..)), a tag is also passed in to filter input/output files by their result data tag. | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | Fixed crash when attempting to export a geometry with incorrectly set capture paths to FBX. | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | Updated Operator Type Properties window documentation to include how to add a separator to a menu. | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | The Alpha plane can now be adjusted with scale/shift if it is currently being viewed in component mode, in MPlay or any of the image viewers. | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | Fixed an issue where the disk cache could cause deadlocking on Windows. This would evidence itself once in a blue moon in a very rare race condition. | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | When mantra fails to load geometry, it will try to print more information about why the loading failed. | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | Fixed a bug where Houdini could lock up when dirtying a TOP node. | Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.236 | Added 4 new methods to the MaxScript API:
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Tue. April 23, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.235 | Fixed opening of UNC file paths from the TOP work item panel | Mon. April 22, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.235 | Fixed a crash evaluating MSS for viewport material assignment when the geometry being processed isn't inside an object node. | Mon. April 22, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.235 | Fixed bug in hqueuescheduler when the specified working directory was absolute, but not a subdirectory of $HQROOT. Changed graph and node-level hqueue jobs to use priority specified by pdg::scheduler parms if available, defaulting to 5 instead of 0. Fixed a minor issue with TextOverlay tool getting default of 0 priority instead of 5. Fixed an issue where hqueuescheduler would fail to shutdown the xmlrpc server thread at the end of a PDG cook. |
Mon. April 22, 2019 |
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Houdini 17.5.235 | Fixed a bug that could cause immediate state changes when selecting Objects in the volatile select state. | Mon. April 22, 2019 |
| Houdini 17.5.235 | Fixed a bug in the Alembic SOP that could result in some items specified in the "Object Path" parameter to be ignored. | Mon. April 22, 2019 |