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  • Please see the required version of Houdini for 18.0 as we have updated versions: Due to binary incompatibility, 23.4 will require different installation steps as linked here.
  • Rendering with RenderMan will not operate on Houdini Apprentice editions. See Side FX's website for options that allow Third Party Rendering

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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

  • Added a namespace argument to args2hda script
  • Added an originalCase flag to args2hdsa script to prevent shader names from converting to lower case
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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