• Fixed how the plugin identifies temporary objects when baking.This will now prevent unnecessary duplication of meshes, materials, etc.. when baking.
• Fixed baking instancers creating extra duplicates of their instanced meshes.

• Fixed materials assigned to a landscape being duplicated when baking.

• Fixed bug that caused World Inputs to sometimes not detect that their input object/actorshad changed, preventing the HDA from automatically updating.
• Improved how world inputs track/detect spline components modifications.

Fixed bugs where the PolyExtrude handle would snap back to its original rotation after the user stopped rotating it.

Tractor scheduler reuse submitted jobs to retry tractor tasks to fix a duplicated task bug.

• Fixed mesh input objects never cleaning up their materials array,slowly bloating up the size of the Houdini Asset Component.This should reduce the memory usage of the plugin when using any HDAthat has input meshes.
• Fixed crash when outputting a mesh that used the "unreal_uproperty_collisionprofilename" attribute.

• Fixed manually entered transform still being pushed to Houdini evenwhen "Push Transform to Houdini" is disabled.

Fixed bugs where the Edit and UVEdit states could set pivot parameters while there was a live transform, thereby unintentionally changing it.

• Fixed a bug that caused UploadTransformToHoudini to only work when

CookOnTransformChange was enabled.

• Houdini Proxy Meshes are now enabled by default.

Fixed a bug in the Bullet solver where setting a custom center of mass (i.e. Compute Center of Mass disabled) could produce incorrect results for instanced compound shapes.

Fixed an issue where baking multiple pieces of geometry in Maya 2022.3 could result in empty meshes.

Fixed a crash on windows when generating UTC timestamps based on invalid data.

Internal bug fix.

• Fixed rot/scale attributes being ignored when outputing curves to SplineComponents.
• Fixed material parameter attributes (unreal_material_parameter_*) not being created on inputs.

Fixed a bug in gabc that could result in a crash when a warning is reported.

Fixed crashes in the old Copy with Stamp and old Copy to Points SOPs when using template point attributes that differed in type from attributes on the source geometry.

Fixed a problem with the package "requires" keyword. Packages requiring unavailable packages were still being processed.

Backported package "python_version" keyword to 18.5

• A new package keyword "houdini_python" has been added to return theinstalled python version (python2 or python3).
• E.g. houdini_python == 'python3'

Fixed a bug where it was impossible to return to an earlier volatile view after interrupting it with any other volatile state.

Fixed bug where we were leaking volatile states that we failed to enter.

Fixed a bug where the main Houdini window unintentially opened in full screen mode for some Linux window managers. This only occurred on systems with multiple monitors.

Like the Reference and Sublayer LOPs, the Load Layer LOP will now also set the asset resolver context using the source layer's path if the user has enabled the preference to set the asset resolver context from LOP node parameters.

Fixed bug that would cause HAPI_GetAttributeNames and HAPI_GetAttributeInfo to fail when working with VDB volumes.

• Partially loaded input landscapes will now correctly send transformsto Houdini.
• Fix height offset issue with input landscapes.
• Fix HoudiniAssetComponent cook-on-transform-change regression.

• Fix crash when baking a non-editlayer landscape.
• Improve detection of newly baked levels when WorldComposition is enabled.