Houdini Main Changelogs

22.0.416

Fixed an issue with the pivot rotate not being handled correctly in the APEX Animate state with either the handle or click and drag.

yesterday
22.0.416

Adds Texture option to Projection Type in Karma Physical Lens shader. This option allows ray start and end to be read from two texture map. Note that this is an XPU option only.

yesterday
22.0.416

Fixed a bug with the Knit COP producing incorrect results when the size_ref input had a non-wrapping border.

yesterday
22.0.416

Fixes a display issue when entering the picker state from the Lens Distort COP center parameter.

yesterday
22.0.416

Fix an issue with the handle in the APEX Animate state not picking up the pivot values for transform controls.

yesterday
22.0.415

Added support for viewport selection when selecting joints in the Motion Mixer.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fixed a bug with the Knit COP not using the Scale parameter when Knit Shape Type was set to Knit.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fixed a bug with the Knit COP not working correctly with a scaled size_ref input.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Added a "Disable GSplats Self-Shadowing" toggle in the Display Option to disable gsplats shadowing themselves or each other.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fix Paint 3D erroring out when painting on a half-precision (float16) COP layer.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Adds a button to the Null COP to set field names from inputs.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fixed Alpha attribute rendering artifact on viewport subdivision.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fixes a bug with Cable Split COP where the offset in Split by Range was being added instead of subtracted. The previous behaviour can be achieved by negating the Offset parameter.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fixes a bug with Cable Split COP where the offset in Split by Range was being added instead of subtracted. The previous behaviour can be achieved by negating the Offset parameter.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fixed a bug in the ML Train GSplats from Karma recipe, which caused the rendering to fail due to .usdnc files.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fix viewport subdivision crease/corner weights not displaying in the LOPs viewport.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fix viewport subdivision crease/corner weights not updating interactively.

Mon. August 17, 2026
22.0.415

Fix crash when loading APEX scenes that contain (inadvertently) empty characters.

Mon. August 17, 2026
21.0.809

Updated the FBX SDK to version 2020.3.10. As of this change, vertex color values will be clamped to their valid range from 0.0 to 1.0 on import. In addition, FBX files with UVIndex arrays of a length that exceeds the number of polygon-vertex indices will now have their UV data discarded on import.

Sat. August 15, 2026
21.0.809

Updated the FBX SDK to version 2020.3.10. This upgrade addresses high severity security vulnerabilities identified in version 2020.3.9 and earlier. Details available here: https://www.autodesk.com/trust/security-advisories/adsk-sa-2026-0010

Sat. August 15, 2026
22.0.412
  • Added support for shared memory data transfer.Shared Memory data transfer allow Houdini and Unity to share data using acommon reserved memory buffer. This generally provides faster transfer,especially when sending large amount of data. This can be enabled regardlessof the type of session used.
  • Removed Thrift shared memory session type - as shared memory data transferis preferred over them.
Fri. August 14, 2026
22.0.412

Fixed an issue where the Ramp Generator tool was still usable on disabled ramp parms.

Fri. August 14, 2026
22.0.412

Fixed a bug where using the Color Editor window to edit a color parm did not propagate that change across multiple selected nodes.

Fri. August 14, 2026
22.0.412

Some UI cleanup. Restore alternating colours for multicolumn trees/tables. Fix colour flashing when opening/closing tree branches. Fix crash caused by lightmixer/linker trees.

Fri. August 14, 2026
22.0.412

Fixes an issue with the COP Picker State where it would throw an exception when invoked from a HeightField Clip COP node.

Fri. August 14, 2026