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Houdini 4.9.450 Preferences are now saved for all COP display options (including mplay) as well as the compositing engine preferences. Thu. August 23, 2001
Houdini 4.9.450 Frame scoping has been had to many COPs, allowing them to work on single frames or multiple subranges. Regular plane scoping has been made easier to use in the common case by adding the RGBA buttons. Thu. August 23, 2001
Houdini 4.9.450 Vmantra now correctly renders NURBS curves with attributes of both types present. Thu. August 23, 2001
Houdini 4.9.450 Fix problem with hserver getting into a bad state when multiple versions of houdini are installed and uninstalle form the same machine. We do this by not copying hserver.exe into winnt/system32. Instead we run hserver from within $HB. Thu. August 23, 2001
Houdini 4.9.450 Geometry with deformation blur instanced off particles is now outputted correctly to vmantra and RenderMan. Thu. August 23, 2001
Houdini 4.9.449 Snap priorities defaults have all been set to 0, except for GEO Points which is set to 1. Wed. August 22, 2001
Houdini 4.9.449 The texture sop now uses the UV edit handle. Wed. August 22, 2001
Houdini 4.9.448 The brush SOPs (comb, sculpt, paint) have "Apply To All" which applies the current operation to the entire selected region uniformly. They also have "Reset All Changes" which undoes all the painting instantly. Finally, the Paint brush has an eye dropper mode where the colour or attribute is read into the parameter rather than written out. Tue. August 21, 2001
Houdini 4.9.448 PolySplit no longer has a Snap Tolerance option. This option has been replaced by a smarter way to do picking. Tue. August 21, 2001
Houdini 4.9.448 Hserver has a new option -V which displays all version specific VMantra commands. Tue. August 21, 2001
Houdini 4.9.448 Added the -p option which reloads the hserver.opt file. This option can be specified in conjunction with "-h host" to remotely cause this file to be reloaded. Tue. August 21, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 The Box SOP now uses XYZ divisions rather than rows and columns to decide how dense to make meshes. Mon. August 20, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 Added support for vertex UVs in the UV Edit SOP. Mon. August 20, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 The PolyWire SOP has been added. This SOP allows one to sweep polygonal tubes around polygonal backbones. The intersections are blended smoothly. Mon. August 20, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 2 changes to make subdivision modeling easier when viewing the control mesh in wireframe and the subdivided surface as a shaded template:
  • Normals on selected polygons are now drawn thicker. They're typically turned on when selecting polygons on the control mesh, and it was hard to see if they were selected or not.
  • Selected polygons now draw properly in the control mesh. They used to be occluded by the edges of the non-selected polygons.
Mon. August 20, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 vmantra no longer rejects defective geometry for subdivision surfaces. It renders it anyway. Mon. August 20, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 'Snap Tolerance' parameter in PolySplit now in toolbox. Mon. August 20, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 When right-clicking on the construction plane, you now get the cplane menu instead of "Nothing picked". Mon. August 20, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 Geometry spreadsheet can now show vertex attributes. Witness the power! Fri. August 17, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 Selecting edges should now be faster. Thu. August 16, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 Implemented new picking method that makes the following much faster for dense geometries:
  • Context sensitive menu over geometry
  • Object locating
  • PolySplit locating before clicking once.

Also fixed a bug in PolySplit that would not let you select from object merge sops.

Wed. August 15, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 All sliders in Houdini now behave like input fields with respect to the left/middle/right mouse button functions:
  • Left dragging moves the slider as before.
  • Middle dragging brings up an XCF slider to modify the value.
  • Right clicking reverts to the previous value.

This includes all parm sliders and the playbar.

Wed. August 15, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 Fixed bug where homing or framing on the selection wouldn't work properly when choosing the inputs to a sop. Wed. August 15, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 The selection mechanism is much less likely to accidentally drag the geometry when you really only wanted to change the selection. The threshold for dragging has been increased from one pixel to three. Wed. August 15, 2001
Houdini 4.9.447 Objects now have an xray flag that says that they should be rendered as dimmed wireframe when hidden in view by other (non-xray) objects. The Bones state by default, creates bone chains with the xray flag on. Wed. August 15, 2001
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