Houdini Main Changelogs

20.0.697

XPU: fixed an issue where render region with extreme aspect ratio was resulting in overly blurry textures

Fri. May 3, 2024
20.0.697

Fixed an issue with service-based tasks not always reporting failure status properly, which was causing tasks with errors in their log to appear as successful in the TOPs UI.

Fri. May 3, 2024
20.0.696

The output of the Houdini Ocean Procedural LOP can now be used as a Reference or Payload and the Interior Volume will render correctly.

Thu. May 2, 2024
20.0.695

Significant performance improvement for the Karma Render Settings LOP on large scenes. Karma Render Settings, Karma Standard RenderVars and Karma Render Products LOPs can now specify custom parent prim locations for the render products and rendervars.

Thu. May 2, 2024
20.0.696

Added a Reload Model button to the ONNX SOP to force a reload of the .onnx file from disk.

Thu. May 2, 2024
20.0.696

Though the OCIO config shipped with Houdini is based on the OpenColorIO-Config-ACES project, the file contained invalid inactive_spaces listed. This has been cleaned up.

Thu. May 2, 2024
20.0.696

Made http(s):// error urls clickable in hkey.

Thu. May 2, 2024
20.0.695

Fixed Flipbook Blocking Editing. Fixed hscript openport command that wasn't applying the ip_mask properly.

Wed. May 1, 2024
20.0.695

Viewer State Browser - inspect Curve SOP state - KeyError: 'msg'

  • Fix regression in the browser logging
Wed. May 1, 2024
20.0.695

Python HUD Handle - Python Errors When Using Edit SOP

  • Fix exceptions in HUD handles occurring when exiting the select state invokedas volatile while the edit SOP is the current state.
  • Now logging HUD handle errors in the Houdini logging panel as Python Logging source.
Wed. May 1, 2024
20.0.695

Add support for "product in" with licensing partitioning.

Wed. May 1, 2024
20.0.694

Fixed a bug where publish errors were not being reported when publishing a license set.

Tue. April 30, 2024
20.0.694

Fixed a bug where DNS licenses were not being considered as valid.

Tue. April 30, 2024
20.0.693

Fix a bug with Karma XPU where coat component values were wrongly written to glossy transmission aov.

Mon. April 29, 2024
20.0.693

When a SOP Import is given a Save Path to set on the imported layer, the layer is now also marked as "Explicit", so it will not get flattened with other implicit LOP layers. This normally does not occur with a SOP Import layer, but following it with a Cache LOP could lead to this happening.

Mon. April 29, 2024
20.0.693

When adding or removing a multiparm instance where existing instance parms contain locked parameters, the rearrangement of existing parm instances now works as expected.

Mon. April 29, 2024
20.0.693

Fixed a bug on Windows and Mac when retrying a HTTP request. The bug mostly occurred when the application restarted hserver and failed to resend the HTTP request.

Mon. April 29, 2024
20.0.693

Fixed issues with visualizing/soloing shaders inside subnets.

Mon. April 29, 2024
20.0.689

Fixed issues in the Crowd MotionPath Edit SOP which caused NaNs to be produced when editing paths with zero-length edges (e.g. from stationary regions in a clip).

Thu. April 25, 2024
20.0.689

Fix a bug with RigPose SOP when using pivot rotate.

Thu. April 25, 2024
20.0.689

Added support for Unreal 5.4.

Thu. April 25, 2024
20.0.689

Fix python errors in the APEX Scene Animate viewport state when invoking the Locator tool while in the left/right orthographic viewports.

Thu. April 25, 2024
20.0.688

Fix potential crash in new hou.lop.forceReloadAllFilesFromDisk method.

Wed. April 24, 2024
20.0.688

Fixed a bug where servers run on machines with hostnames that have domain names incorrectly disable licenses.

Wed. April 24, 2024
20.0.688

Fix an issue with HoudiniGL rendering of the origin axes draw mode.

Wed. April 24, 2024