Solid Angle Houdini to Arnold 6.2.1.1 (x64)

6.2.1.1 - Release Date: 19 April 2023
Bug Fixes
HTOA-2188 - Importing material replaces multiple underscores with a single underscore for shaders inside the Arnold material builder
ARNOLD-13043 - DeepEXR and Cryptomatte use more memory than needed
ARNOLD-13128 - Node init and update happens twice when doing a negative AA progressive render
ARNOLD-13367 - Opacity mask texture performance scaling regression
ARNOLD-13397 - Crash report sent when Arnold is not used
ARNOLD-13446 - Crash with extremely small triangles near the origin
ARNOLD-13434 - sd Sublayer loading errors on Windows
ARNOLD-9497 - [GPU] coat_direct, coat_indirect, and other diffuse/translucent AOVs are incorrect
ARNOLD-13377 - [GPU] Output warning instead of error when unable to create child node of procedural
usd#1485 - MaterialX shader nodes should have "auto" colorspace by default
usd#1459 - Support shaders with multiple outputs
usd#1359 - Refresh the Arnold instancer when the prototype mesh points have changed
usd#1483 - Indexed normals with vertex interpolation are now converted properly
usd#1462 - Ensure shader scope doesn't appear twice in the hierarchy
usd#1477 - Fix the motion blur with interframe geometry samples in the render delegate
usd#1419 - Add a note in the README about the USD_ASSIGN_PROTOTYPES_DETERMINISTICALLY environment variable, which fixes the flickering instances in cryptomatte issue
usd#1426 - Skinned transforms are now correctly used on the skinned meshes
Arnoldis an advanced cross-platform rendering library, or API, used by a number of prominent organizations in film, television, and animation, including Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was developed as a photo-realistic, physically-based ray tracing alternative to traditional scanline based rendering software for CG animation. Arnold uses cutting-edge algorithms that make the most effective use of your computer's hardware resources: memory, disk space, multiple processor cores, and SIMD/SSE units. The Arnold architecture was designed to easily adapt to existing pipelines. It is built on top of a pluggable node system; users can extend and customize the system by writing new shaders, cameras, filters, and output driver nodes, as well as procedural geometry, custom ray types and user-defined geometric data. The primary goal of the Arnold architecture is to provide a complete solution as a primary renderer for animation and visual effects.
Arnold for Houdini (HtoA)provides a bridge to the Arnold renderer from within the standard Houdini interface. Having been in beta for several months, the plugin has already been used in production by many studios, including Prime Focus World for Hercules and Vampire Academy, Milk VFX for the Sherlock and Doctor Who TV series, and Framestore NY for the Captain Morgan commercials.
Houdini to Arnold Teaser
Teaser of the upcoming tutorials about Arnold for Houdini. I will be making a digital asset Arnold "uber" shader, showing how to make layered materials, explaining the general setting and at the very end texturing, rendering and multi-pass comping a Ferrari 458 Italia in NukeX. Available in 4k UltraHD
Solid Angleis leading provider of rendering software for animation and visual effects. The Arnold team believe that accurately and efficiently computing light transport in CG scenes is the best way to create stunning imagery for films and TV. Developers strive to provide clients with the best rendering tools to efficiently create realistic images. Solid Angle is a wholly owned subsidiary of Autodesk Inc, and has its offices in Madrid and London.