Houdini Main Changelogs

18.5.830

Added a new attribute, unreal_bake_actor_class, that can be used to set the class of the Actor that is spawned when baking to actors. If unreal_bake_actor_class is blank or missing, then an AActor is spawned.

Fri. January 21, 2022
18.5.830

Static mesh generation properties and mesh build settings from the HoudiniAssetComponent are now also used for static meshes generated by PDG.

Fri. January 21, 2022
18.5.830

Fix crash when HDA output node has template flag enabled.

Fri. January 21, 2022
18.5.830

When PIE stops, only reconnect Houdini session if it was previously connected.

Fri. January 21, 2022
18.5.830

Fixed an issue with applying generic UProperty attributes to source models on static meshes where only the first source model's UProperties were updated. Additionally, generic attributes now only trigger updates on the corresponding UProperties if the current and new values are different.

Fri. January 21, 2022
18.5.830

Fix a bug with the bounds auto-collection introduced in 18.5.679. That version fixed a crash with the bounds collection, but introduced a bug where the camera bound calculation would produce incorrect results, somewhat at random (depending on which threads ran the bounds calculations).

Fri. January 21, 2022
18.5.830

Approximate simple box and capsule collider rotations when importing static mesh collision geometry into Unreal.

Fri. January 21, 2022
18.5.830

Input object transform offsets are now accessed by input object index in Public API Geometry inputs.

Fri. January 21, 2022
18.5.830

Fixed potential memory leaks in a proxy object API.

Fri. January 21, 2022
18.5.828

Fix crash that can happen when copy/pasting any nodes that make use of the $OS expression.

Wed. January 19, 2022
18.5.822

Fixed missing opacity map lookup in the viewport's unlit shader when wire-over-shaded is disabled.

Thu. January 13, 2022
18.5.819

Fixed a bug causing the plugin to create an extra empty Blueprint when importing BGEO files.

Mon. January 10, 2022
18.5.816

Fixed a bug where the parameter spreadsheet treated rows with only flags as being empty.

Fri. January 7, 2022
18.5.815

Fixed an issue with the ROP Fetch TOP adding both the .ifd file and image output as expected outputs when cooking a Mantra ROP configured to generate IFDs.

Thu. January 6, 2022
18.5.814

Fixed an exception in the Wedge TOP that was occuring when the Target Parameter field was set to a parm tuple path instead of a parm.

Wed. January 5, 2022
18.5.813

Fixed a crash when using the `bound` auto-collection in a primitive pattern if the supplied bounds primitive doesn't exist.

Tue. January 4, 2022
18.5.794

Fixed a bug where syntax highlighting in the textport could access freed memory.

Thu. December 16, 2021
18.5.791

Fixed an issue where the View Opacity Mask display option wasn't being saved to the hipfile.

Mon. December 13, 2021
18.5.791

Fixed a bug with pdg.Attrib.__setitem__ having incorrect argument ordering, which caused an exception to be thrown when trying to set attribute values using array indexing, e.g. attrib[index] = "value".

Mon. December 13, 2021
18.5.787

Fixed bugs where HOM asCode() methods and opscript were saving incorrect positions for minimized network boxes and sticky notes. Fixed a bug where opscript was also saving the incorrect size for minimized sticky notes.

Thu. December 9, 2021
18.5.787

Fixed bug where deleting a minimized network box would leave its contents at the wrong position.

Thu. December 9, 2021
18.5.777

The OP Notify TOP can now trigger a reload button on the target node, when work items in the TOP node cook.

Mon. November 29, 2021
18.5.773

Fixed a bug that could cause .bgeo files containing agents to fail to load if multiple .bgeo files were being loaded in parallel.

Thu. November 25, 2021
18.5.771

The pdg.WorkItem.cookDuration property now returns 0 if the item has not started to cook, and returns current_time - start_time if the work item is in the process of cooking. Previously, the property would return garbage values when accessed before a work item had completed cooking.

Tue. November 23, 2021
18.5.771

Fixed a bug with work item performance color gradients not working properly in the network editor.

Tue. November 23, 2021