Houdini Main Changelogs
| 21.0.521 | Fixes a regression with RBD Material Fracture SOP's concrete fracture with chipping. |
Fri. October 31, 2025 | |
| 21.0.521 | Updated the Terrain Desktop radial menu and the Terrain Tools shelf to use the new HeightField Erode 3.0 node. |
Fri. October 31, 2025 | |
| 21.0.521 | Support fallback values for the Mtlx USD Primvar Reader node in viewport materials. Previously only default values from Mtlx Geometry Property was supported. |
Fri. October 31, 2025 | |
| 20.5.769 | Fixed the incorrect info in the help card, regarding the inputs of the Mtlx Switch VOP . |
Fri. October 31, 2025 | |
| 21.0.521 | Fixed a crash in Edit Material Properties LOP when editing a USD shader that has source code rather than an ID. |
Fri. October 31, 2025 | |
| 21.0.521 | Add support to the selection set python API for setting set colors with a hou.Color object. |
Fri. October 31, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Fixed a bug in the RBD Material Fracture SOP's concrete fracturing which would assign the wrong name to detail fractured pieces with the Connectivity Partition parm set to None, when named source pieces were made of multiple disconnected pieces. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | The Scene Graph Tree once again shows the activation state of instance proxy (and prototype) prims. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Fixed a bug where the Select Visible Only option wouldn't work when doing point box-picl selection. Caused by pick shader being misconfigured to read from the depth buffer |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Adding the standard "Resbuild Renderer-Specific Parameters" menu item to the Portal Light LOP. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Fixed position coordinates being incorrectly generated for the Layer to Points COP. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Fixed a bug where switching between Karma CPU and XPU might generate invalid textures, causing pink textures to show up in the viewport. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Fixed a viewport MatX shader generation bug when two different hex tiling nodes were used in the same shader. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Dictionary attributes are serialized into .vdb metadata as dict_ prefixed string data. Likewise, dict_ prefixed strings are extracted as dictionaries. This allows the new volvis dictionary attribute to round trip through .vdb files. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Updated Electra to include the head and neck in the skin selection controls. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Building VDBs in COPs when GPU is in bad state will error rather than crash. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Fixed an exception in the APEX Animate state that would be thrown when pre-highlighting a skin selector that did not have a corresponding control. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Changed the type of the APEX Animate viewer state's start and end frame parameters in the Bake tab from floats to integers. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Use @fstart/@fend instead of $FSTART/$FEND in several LOP default parameter values to prevent some unnecessary recooking of these nodes when the frame range changes (Configure Layer, Scene Import, and Edit Context Options nodes were affected). |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.520 | Added color parameter to most of the autorig components and fixed layout of the parameters on the components. Fixed the parenting on the neck component and updated the lookat component. |
Thu. October 30, 2025 | |
| 21.0.519 | Fixed a bug where capturing Pose Library poses with the Capture Thumbnails option enabled would freeze Houdini if inside a LOPs sopcreate node. |
Wed. October 29, 2025 | |
| 20.0.1239 | Backported a ROP fix from 21.0 to address a performance issue with ROP dependency processing. |
Wed. October 29, 2025 | |
| 21.0.519 | Default Maximum Resolution on the Crop COP changed from 8092 to 8192. |
Wed. October 29, 2025 | |
| 21.0.519 | When using a portal/domelight pair in LOPs, hide the light icon for the portal light in the viewer, showing just the domelight icon. |
Wed. October 29, 2025 | |
| 21.0.519 | Fixed a bug where a cable plugged into the Wrangle COP would not run the operator for each wire in the cable. |
Wed. October 29, 2025 |