It is now possible to specify the name of the parent control for pick walking in the APEX Animate state using the 'pick_walk_parent' property on the control in the rig.

Autorig Builder SOP: Add warning when using in input entry and no input is connected. Add warning warning when matching a segment to the right side that mirroring will then not be supported.

Added a load command to the HoudiniEngineSample to load any HDA given an absolute path instead of the default hexagona_lite HDA. Source code available here: https://github.com/sideeffects/HoudiniEngineSample.

Update the control gadgets to perform faster on drag interaction for the animate state and the rig state

Fix HDK headers for oneTBB usage

Fixed an issue whree the Scene Graph Details pane would not always respect the "Panes Show Viewport Stage" preference.

Fixed bug where cancelling a flipbook while the APEX animate viewer state is active caused the viewer state to exit.

Force reparenting for the the foot setup in order to ensure a correct build. Make sure that the prefixes Left_* / Right_* properly work on the Autorig Builder SOP

Allow the 'sidefx::nopickwalk' tag to be specified on controls in the rig graph to exclude the controls from pick walking in the APEX Animate state.

Updated the macOS application, folder and file type icons.

Fixed an issue in the APEX Animate state where pick walking to control groups would not properly open up the control group like when regularly selected.

Fixed a bug with UV Flatten from Points that would modify UV attributes outside the specified operating group. Also added progress reporting.

Fixed a bug with TOPs not properly storing/restoring large service memory limit values.

Fixed a bug with TOPs not properly storing/restoring large service memory limit values.

Fixed a bug in the APEX Mirror Tool that was preventing the plane intersection from being drawn.

Fixed a bug in the animation editor where the curve colors didn't properly update when the color scheme is changed.

Fixed an issue where the Image Filter List editor window would sometimes have its contents appear in the wrong place.

Fixed an issue where Slap Comps and Image Filter Lists did not properly turn on and off.

MPM Debris Source can now preserve all user defined attributes. MPM Post-Fracture has toggles to enable MPM points and filler points as fracture centroids. MPM Deform Pieces can now efficiently handle packed fragments directly in piece transform mode.

On the mpmsurface, the uv transferred from the rest model are now promoted to the vertex. The mesh split on uv islands are fused back together after the per island transfer.

Neural Point Surface onnx models are now fetched from SHFS instead of HFS.

Switched to using the Accelerate framework for sparse matrix solving in the Houdini Intel Mac (x86_64) builds. This may result in minor simulation differences.

Fixed an issue where the Bind Pose output of the USD Character Import SOP could unexpectedly recook after changing the global time range.

Fixed an issue where the Bind Pose output of the USD Character Import SOP could unexpectedly recook after changing the global time range.