Houdini Main Changelogs
18.5.8 | Added a new VEX function chrampderiv for evaluating the derivative of a ramp with respect to position. |
Wed. October 23, 2019 | |
18.5.8 | Added a blendshape deformer for agents. Agents can now store a list o channel values (defined by the rig) in addition to the joint transfor and these channel values can be used to drive the blendshapes. The Agent ROP / SOP now support importing blendshapes from Houdini ri FBX files, and agent blendshapes can exported to USD and viewed in th viewport. |
Wed. October 23, 2019 | |
18.5.8 | Add ability to drag and drop to the light linker from the scene graph tree. |
Wed. October 23, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Fixed bug where light handle would scale with object. Bounding box now takes into account light scale. Added hotkeys for lookat/spotlight to light and camera lop states. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | The SOP TOP (the TOP Network node within the SOP context) has been renamed to TOP Geometry. In addition, a regular TOP Network manager has been added to SOPs. Both methods of interacting with TOPs are now available from within SOPs. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Added a new VEX function chrampderiv for evaluating the derivative of a ramp with respect to position. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Fixed bug where restoring stashed views did not properly flag the viewport as having a window override. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Unity plugin:
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Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Bumped up Houdini's Ptex library to 2.1.33 to match the CY2019 specification of the VFX Reference Platform. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Renamed the ROP USD LOP (rop_usd) and ROP USD Render LOP (rop_usdrender) to USD ROP (usd_rop) and USD Render ROP (usdrender_rop). Aliases added for compatibility with older hip files. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Added new options to Edit -> Preferences -> Lighting to specify a default scene graph location for new lights, and default meters per unit and up axis values to set on layers where values have not been exlicitly set. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Changed the SOP Create and Simulation Proxy nodes to ensure that they don't create any new USD layers internally. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Render settings from the current render settings prim are now passed to the renderer in the LOP viewer. Clicking the render settings buttons on the right toolbar now starts a render, rather than requiring something else to redraw the viewer. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Fixed issues where the houdini_get_default_install_dir() function in Houdini's CMake module did not necessarily match $HOUDINI_USER_PREF_DIR. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Bumped up Houdini's NumPy version to 1.14.6 to match the CY2019 specification of the VFX Reference Platform. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | The Extract File node will now report its output files with a tag detected from the file extension rather than resorting to the generic "file" tag. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | The Modify Point Instancer LOP no longer creates a new USD layer. Instead, it modifies the active layer of the input LOP. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Fixed bug where changing the Apply Zoom to Background display option did not redraw the viewport. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.7 | Fixed the For Each and Merge LOP "Flatten into active layer" modes. These modes were making the input active layer the strongest opinion, when it should have been the weakest. |
Tue. October 22, 2019 | |
18.5.6 | Update USD library to fix some crashes occurring during viewport updates. |
Mon. October 21, 2019 | |
18.5.6 | hou.UIEventDevice.keyString() errors with Shift+DEL
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Mon. October 21, 2019 | |
18.5.6 | Fixed light LOP rerender on mouse entry into viewport. Fixed accidental removal of intensity modifier in light state. |
Mon. October 21, 2019 | |
18.5.6 | Fix several LOP HDA parameters to correctly tag them as USD paths. |
Mon. October 21, 2019 | |
18.5.6 | Fixes bug where hkey wouldn't properly update the connected license server. |
Mon. October 21, 2019 | |
18.5.6 | Unity plugin:
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Mon. October 21, 2019 |