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Welcome to RenderMan for Houdini 23.

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This release of RenderMan for Houdini (RfH) 23, includes a number of new features and bug fixes that address feedback.

Info
  • RenderMan for Houdini now supports multiple production builds of Houdini 18 since the RenderMan release of 23.4. Please see the required version of Houdini for 18.0 as we have updated the builds we support. 
  • Due to the changes in order to support multiple binary incompatible releases of 18.0; 23.4 will require different and 23.5 require the installation steps as linked here.
  • Reminder: Rendering with RenderMan will not operate on Houdini Apprentice editions. See Side FX's website for options that allow Third Party Rendering

Table of Contents

New Features

  • Added support for shutteroffset with packed alembic
  • Support added for point instancing from geo node (with ptinstance parameter)
  • Checkpointing can now take a sequence of intervals that it steps through with each checkpoint, this allows output at different specified timings. Please see the documentation link

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the manifold coordsys was not interactive
  • Fixed bug where transform motion blur was not propagated properly within subnets
  • Corrected a memory corruption bug that caused crashes with select alembic files
  • Fixed where the incorrect materials were applied to packed alembic geo

Miscellaneous Changes

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  • The Preset Browser should now work for Solaris
  • Added progress logging to hdPrman. Supply the -V or --verbosity arg to husk.  See the husk help for how to get different levels of verbosity with the -V arg
  • (hdPrman) Added support for editing display channel settings, like filter, filterwidth

Fixes

  • (hdPrman) Fixed a bug where light linking wasn't working for point instancers

Miscellaneous Changes


Info

Reminder: Renamed Houdini velocity privmars called "v" to "vel"; as "v" is a reserved attribute for RenderMan geometry. Shaders in RenderMan for Houdini should refer to "vel" instead of "v".

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