Houdini Main Changelogs

20.0.11

Added a "Reload Geometry" button to the LidarImport SOP.

Thu. June 16, 2022
20.0.11

In the Rig Pose and Rig Match Pose viewport tools, the joint transform data information is now separated into its own independent HUD in the lower-right corner so that it can be visible independent of the hotkey hints. Furthermore, the numbers are now formatted more nicely.

Thu. June 16, 2022
20.0.10

The Distance along Geometry SOP now supports a "Heat Geodesic" distance metric measuring the distance along the path heat flows along the surfaces of the input geometry.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Fix a crash where the Trace SOP would use an old raster if the filename was blank.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Fixed the hou.Geometry overload of hou.Parm._set() to throw when called on a non-data parameter rather than to silently do nothing.

Fixed hou.Parm.set() to throw when called with None, rather than to treat the None as a hou.Geometry.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Add support for Point Cloud input to SmoothMotion SOP in addition to Skeletons and Motion Clips

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Fixed vex error with non-unique point names in RigAttribVOP SOP.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Updates to Topo Landmark help card and example file related to finalizing parmater names.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Remove "?" buttons from some dialog box title bars

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Gallery views (i.e. render gallery, asset gallery, layout working set gallery) all now support using the Delete key to delete items.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Enhance the Add/Edit Asset dialog.

  • Keep entered data if there's a validation error.
  • Add buttons for choosing and clearing the thumbnail.
  • Edit and Save dialogs now look more different.
Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

The Log Viewer pane automatically enables logging as soon as you press the connections menu button, meaning there is no longer any need to explicitly "Enable Logging" from that menu before seeing the list of available log sources.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Added hotkeys F, Shift+F, and Ctrl+Shift+F to scroll tree UIs to the current, next, or previous selected item in the tree.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

All out of process work items will now consistently print their PID, and information about the Houdini installation they're using if the work item runs using hython.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Fix python deprecation warnings when using the "duplicate" function in the Stage Manager LOP.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Fixed a bug in Curve SOP with unconnected points in the input, and another bug resulting in the cached geometry continuing to be used when the group changed. Also added a cache optimization so that the cache will continue to be used when the input changes if the group contains no primitives.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Fixed a bug where newly installed licenses would be reported as DNS invalid until the DNS cache was updated.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Fixed an error in the Agent Definition Cache SOP when loading an agent if no layer named 'default' existed.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Synchronized parm names and labels in Topo Landmark and removed unused commands from context menu, fixed up errors with cancel and done buttons in Topo Transfer.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Gallery views (i.e. render gallery, asset gallery, layout working set gallery) all now support using the Delete key to delete items.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Enhance the Add/Edit Asset dialog.

  • Keep entered data if there's a validation error.
  • Add buttons for loading and clearing the thumbnail.
  • Edit and Save dialogs now look more different.
Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Alt+click a slider will bring up the value/range dialog.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Sliders will now auto-expand their range if the value is outside of the specified range. The range will increase to half powers of 10 (e.g. 5, 10, 50, ...). The range does not auto-contract.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.10

Allowing dropping transformable non-light prims onto the transforms tab of the light mixer. This is to allow the light mixer to transform a light's parent prim.

Wed. June 15, 2022
20.0.9

Bumped up Houdini's blosc library to version 1.20.1.

Tue. June 14, 2022