HtoA 6.3.6.1 - Arnold for Houdini
29 January 2025
HtoA 6.3.6.1 is a bugfix release that uses Arnold 7.3.6.1. For the full list of features in HtoA 6.3.6, see the HtoA 6.3.6 release notes.
Installation
Download Arnold for Houdini from your Autodesk Account. See Download Arnold for more information about downloading HtoA from your Autodesk Account.
Follow these installation instructions
Bug Fixes
- HTOA-2829 - Fixed an error in the Arnold Edit Material LOP when incompatible VOP connections are made
- HTOA-2830 - Ramp connections now work properly in the Arnold Edit Material LOP
- ARNOLD-15733 - [MaterialX] NodeGraph interface inputs with custom names do not render correctly with Arnold
- ARNOLD-15717 - [MaterialX] The defaultgeomprom input property on node definitions is ignored when the input has a NodeGraph interface
- ARNOLD-15741 -
kick -set driver_exr.filename
does not handle long strings - ARNOLD-15755 - Not calling AiEnd() results in an "Error 1 when uninitializing ADP"
- ARNOLD-15756 - Non-rectangular quad lights should be a warning instead of an error
- ARNOLD-15742 - driver_exr.custom_attributes do not work if you use Cryptomatte
- ARNOLD-15682 - If parameter is not in UI group metadata it is missing from kick -info
- ARNOLD-15836 - [GPU] Fix potential rare crash on exit or when deleting objects
System Requirements
- Houdini, Houdini FX, Houdini Indie and Houdini Education
- 19.5.805
- 20.0.896
- 20.5.487
- Linux with at least glibc 2.28 and libstdc++ 9.3.1 (gcc 9.3.1) for Houdini 19.5, 20 and 20.5. This is equivalent to RHEL/CentOS 7.
- Linux with at least glibc 2.17 and libstdc++ 11.2.1 (gcc 11.2.1) for Houdini 20/20.5. This is equivalent to Rocky 8.
- macOS 11 or later
- Apple Mac models with M series chips are natively supported by HtoA
- x86-64 CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set. Apple Mac models with M series chip are supported natively mode.
- GPU rendering works on Windows and Linux only and requires an NVIDIA GPU with the Maxwell architecture or later.
- On Linux, we recommend 560.35.03 or higher drivers.
- On Windows, we recommend 560.76 or higher drivers.
- Optix™ denoiser requires an NVidia GPU with CUDA™ Compute Capability 5.0 and above.
- Intel OIDN GPU support is limited to:
- MacOS
- Apple native CPUs (M1 and newer)
- Windows
- Intel Xe dedicated and integrated GPUs
- NVIDIA GPUs using Turing or newer architectures
- AMD GPUs with RDNA2 (Navi 21 only) and RDNA3 (Navi 3x) architectures
- MacOS