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

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RenderMan for Houdini now supports multiple production builds of Houdini 18. Please see the required version of Houdini for 17.5 and 18.0 as we have added new versionsupdated the builds we support.
Due to the changes in order to support multiple binary incompatible releases of 18.0; 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
Houdini Indie is only compatible with 17.5 and higher, and you must be using at least version 17.5.210 or higher

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New Features in 23.4

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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

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

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

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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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