Houdini Main Changelogs

18.0.617

Make sure VOP subnets respect TAB menu filtering of the parent manager.

Tue. October 20, 2020
18.0.617

Fixed bugs with undoing exclusions of take data from the take list pane.

Fixed an undo ordering issue when undoing removal of node flags from a take.

Tue. October 20, 2020
18.0.617

Added hou.Geometry.isReadOnly() method that will return True if the geometry is read-only.

Tue. October 20, 2020
18.0.616

Fixed FBX import regression introduced in 18.0.553 where child nodes of ths scene root that used hierarchical inheritance stopped importing correctly.

Mon. October 19, 2020
18.0.616

Fixed a potential bug in path delocalization when an output file would container __PDG_DIR__ incorrectly.

Mon. October 19, 2020
18.0.613

Fixed a bug where python script jobs running on Deadline would fail when using pdgcmd RPCs

Fri. October 16, 2020
18.0.613

Fix crash when loading FBX files for KineFX or agents that do not have an explicit frame rate set.

Fri. October 16, 2020
18.0.612

Increased tolerance for detecting 2 input vectors being co-linear in makebasis() vex function. This addresses potential artifacts in direct refractions in mantra when using cone or phong BSDF.

Thu. October 15, 2020
18.0.612

primuvconvert() VEX functions now support integer-based input geometry selection.

Thu. October 15, 2020
18.0.612

The Copy and Transform SOP's re-select action button should now work.

Thu. October 15, 2020
18.0.612

POP Group now has a descriptive parameter for its group.

Thu. October 15, 2020
18.0.612

Volume Rasterize Attributes SOP now has dropdown menus for easy attribute selection.

Thu. October 15, 2020
18.0.612

The .ply conversion code will no longer attempt to create integer attributes from groups - this did not work in any case, and could have caused name collisions. Instead groups should be explicitly converted to integer attributes prior to export if they are to be round-tripped through .ply.

Thu. October 15, 2020
18.0.611

The deprecation link for the gas disturbfield cl now points to the 2.0 version of gasdisturb.

Wed. October 14, 2020
18.0.611

Fixed a bug with turbulence visualization on the pyro solver SOP.

Wed. October 14, 2020
18.0.611

Fixed a crash in Sop Merge Field that occurred when the specified DOP mask was not a scalar field.

Wed. October 14, 2020
18.0.611

Fixed a bug with the Scalar Field Visualization DOP that produced incorrect results when smoke was remapped.

Wed. October 14, 2020
18.0.611

Fixed a bug in the vertex() and prim() hscript expressions that could result in loss of precision when reading large integer values from attributes.

Wed. October 14, 2020
18.0.610

Fixed a crash in the Geometry Import TOP that could occur when canceling a cook mid way through work item generation.

Tue. October 13, 2020
18.0.610

Added support for a file-based Tractor scheduler login. $PDG_TRACTOR_PASSWORD_FILE can be set to the path to a text file containing the base64-encoded password.

Tue. October 13, 2020
18.0.606

The post_outputInstance SOHO hook has been re-ordered so that it occurs before the ray_end() statement. This allows the post_outputInstance hook to add data to the instance while it's still in scope.

Fri. October 9, 2020
18.0.606

The Agent SOP now allows importing agents from a non-animated USD skeleton.

Fri. October 9, 2020
18.0.606

Added an 'Unsaved HIP file' confirmation dialog to the submit- graph-as-job TOP scheduler workflow.

Fri. October 9, 2020
18.0.605

Added a batch_size argument to pdgcmd.reportResultData. This is used in the rare case of sending a large number of result paths in one shot back to PDG. It controls the maximum number paths sent per multicall RPC.

Thu. October 8, 2020
18.0.605

Fixed progress reporting for HQueue. The MQ job will no longer affect the overall job progress calculation.

Thu. October 8, 2020