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What's New

Miscellaneous and Important Changes 

• View RIB tools for debugging added

  • "View Selected RIB" menu tool only works in versions of Houdini 17.5.229 and later
• Added interactively edit hider:minsamples, hider:maxsamples, hider:minextrasamples, and Ri:PixelVariance
• Support added for vector3, vector4, matrix4x4 parameter tags
• We now disable checkpointing when ipr rendering
• Added correct pixel filter settings globally
• Allow a coordinate system with Null node

Fixes

• A bug that prevented the use of DWAa and DWAb EXR compression has been addressed

• Fix extraneous warnings created when rendering motion blur on alembic geometry imported into Houdini
• Bug fix pxrshadowsamplefilter Shader Type = output
• Fixed a bug on Linux where Houdini could crash if rendering to 'it' after having rendered in the Render View
• Fixed a bug that did not unhide geometry when subnet became visible
• Mesh light bug fixes including issues with referenced geometry
• Fix sun direction manipulator to prevent invalid directions
• Allow/Fix point, vector, matrix, normal osl parameters to render correctly
• Correctly reverse NURBS orientation
• First iteration now obeys crop window settings

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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