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"The Unsullied" by Dylan Sisson, rendered in RenderMan for Houdini

What's New

• New Viewport Rendering Options – The visualizer and snapshot icon have new right-click option menus

Miscellaneous and Important Changes 

• Batched OSL execution is enabled by default (on CPUs supporting AVX, AVX2 or AVX512)

Fixes

• Added camera projection sweep parameters

• Added holdout shelf and menu tool for creating holdout geometry and setting up shadow AOVs

• Render cameras now available in subnets
• Geo/xform motion sample parameter overrides on obj nodes are now interactive
• Move "enable depth of field" toggle behavior to ROP node
• Object paths now evaluate expressions
• Support added for custom versions of pxr nodes with name scope::namespace::pxr*::version
• We now support sparse RenderMan parameters
• RfH now drives fovEnd from standard camera parameters

Fixes

• Fixed forced matte and phantom to render regardless of candidate membership

• We now output AOVs with shelf render button

• A bug that prevented meshes with multiple shaders from rendering when deformation blur was on has been fixed

• We now respect pixel aspect ratioFixed a crash that could occur when scrubbing timeline during IPR for scenes involving MASH meshes

Known Issues

• Phantom objects are removed from all rays, not just camera rays
• Applying undo of deleted nodes or collapsing to subnet may not work as expected
• Interactive Render Regions may require adjustment to start rendering
• Rewiring subnet indirect inputs
• Auto camera creation for IPR
• RenderMan clipping planes
• If a light instance's master is disabled, the first render/update will still show the master

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