• Windows and Linux support for Unreal Engine 5.7 and 5.8.

• macOS support for Unreal Engine 5.6.

• Unreal parameter details panel redesigned:

  • Improved layout to be more similar to Unreal.

  • Label expressions are now supported.

  • Added support for button strips.

  

• Now supports Copernicus HDA for the asset editor and regular world. This allows you to create COP Houdini digital assets similar to SOP and OBJ.

  • New 2D mode in the asset editor.

  • New set of Image Data properties to control generated resolution, pixel scale, and image data format. Supports int8, int16, float16, and float32.

  

• Support for AO, displacement, and Compact (RMA) maps in the COPS/materials.

• PCG integration improvements:

  • PCG generation times are now faster.

  • Updated overview documentation with better setup workflows.

  • PCG HDA Inputs now take their names from the HDA Inputs rather than Input0,Input1 and so on.

  • PCG HDAs can now has a Force PCG Outputs option to make all outputs treated as PCG native data.

  • PCG Input Object attribute names can now be customized.

• PDG asset link has an improved UI with simplified and improved responsiveness.

• New world building example tool that uses Houdini Engine and Unreal blueprints to demo an art pipeline to create a MOBA style level.

• Updated Houdini Engine for Unreal content examples that contain showrooms that demonstrate features within the plugin.

• Houdini Niagara plugin now supports large files.

• Added InstantiatePreset / InstantiatePresetWithExistingWrapper to the public API.

• Texture input and output improvements:

  • Input support in geometry input.

  • Output without requiring any geometry or material to be connected.

• Added a new Cook on Input change checkbox to the asset options.

• Simplified Cook on Param/Input change options to now just Cook on Param change.

• New Bake to Asset bake mode that allows baking Unreal assets directly in the content browser.

• Support for custom primitive data.

• Supports baking of texture outputs.

• Shared memory improvements.

• Support for importing and exporting additional landscape spline properties.

• Added support for Houdini presets in the Houdini Asset Editor.

glTF SOP improvements:

• Importing for Draco compressed mesh, point cloud, material, and animation.

• Support for importing materials as a Mtlx shader (in addition to Principled Shader).

• Camera import to SOP camera primitive.

• Improved path attribute support.

• Improved property name importing.

• Support for more material extensions:

  • KHR\_materials\_emissive\_strength

  • KHR\_materials\_ior

  • KHR\_materials\_specular

  • KHR\_materials\_transmission

• Ability to ignore extensions marked by the glTF file as Required.

• Better error reporting.

glTF ROP output driver 2.0 SOP improvements:

• Exporting for Draco mesh compression, multiple animation clip, point cloud, and SOP camera.

• Support for exporting materials as a Mtlx shader (in addition to Principled Shader).

• Better property name exporting.

• Support for more material extensions:

  • KHR\_materials\_emissive\_strength

  • KHR\_materials\_ior

  • KHR\_materials\_specular

  • KHR\_materials\_transmission

• Build scene hierarchy from path attribute.

• Better error reporting.