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HtoA 6.4.4.1 - Arnold for Houdini

24 September 2025

HtoA 6.4.4.1 is a bugfix release using Arnold 7.4.3.2. For the full list of features in HtoA 6.4.4.0, see the HtoA 6.4.4.0 release notes.

Important: The Arnold 7.4.3.x releases are the last Arnold releases that will include support for CentOS 7.

Bug Fixes

  • HTOA-2996 - Volume LOP does not work with step_scale
  • ARNOLD-16506 - Cryptomatte filter was not reflecting interactive changes in the beauty filter
  • ARNOLD-16695 - MaterialX Color4 Image node throws error while rendering
  • ARNOLD-16713 - Support normalmap shaders from older versions of materialx
  • ARNOLD-16723 - Support materialx_types in AiMaterialxGetNodeEntryFromDefinition
  • ARNOLD-16761 - Crash when largest polygon stats contains deleted mesh
  • ARNOLD-16770 - Scene bounding box is not updated for changes that reinitialize a geometry node
  • ARNOLD-16772 - Nested procedural instances randomly disappear when GPU rendering on Linux
  • usd#2422 - Fix regression on frame changes in the usd procedural

Installation

System Requirements

  • Houdini, Houdini FX, Houdini Indie and Houdini Education

    • 20.0.896
    • 20.5.684
    • 21.0.440
  • 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 and OptiX denoising work on Windows and Linux only, and require an NVIDIA GPU with the Maxwell architecture or later.

  • 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

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