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Arnold Menu - Arnold for Houdini

There are useful links and information for HtoA in the Arnold menu.

  • User Guide: opens this HtoA manual in the browser.
  • Tutorials: opens the Tutorials page in the browser.
  • Developer Guide: Opens the Arnold Developer Guide.
  • Arnold: opens the Arnold renderer web page in the browser.
  • Arnold Community: opens the Arnold Community web page in the browser.
  • Support Blog: opens the support blog page in the browser.
  • Licensing:

    - Licensing Home: opens the licensing page of the support site in the browser.

    - Licensing Manager: opens the licensing manager.

    - Purchase Subscription: opens a page where you can purchase an Arnold subscription.
  • Material Export: Export material shader graphs to .ass or .mtlx.
  • Material Import: Import material shader graphs as .ass or .mtlx. Imports and connects surface, displacement, and volume shader graphs and attaches to the OUT_material node in the arnold_vopnet.
  • Flush Solaris Textures: Flushes the Solaris texture cache.
  • Update TX Textures: updates all of the TX textures in the scene.
  • Upgrade Deprecated Shaders: converts deprecated shaders to HtoA shaders. Use this to convert standard_surface to openpbr_surface.
  • Help: There are useful links and information for HtoA in the Arnold -> Help menu

Arnold Help menu

There are useful links and information for HtoA in the Arnold -> Help menu

  • Desktop Analytics Program...: opens the Autodesk Desktop Analytics Program window.
  • Diagnostics: tests for version mismatches between the build and runtime Houdini and Arnold versions (a common installation error to troubleshoot).
  • Legal Notice: opens the End User License Agreement.
  • About HtoA: opens the End User License Agreement.

How to check the version number

You can open the About HtoA dialog from the Arnold > Help > About HtoA menu. It displays a dialog showing credits and the version number of HtoA and the Arnold core.

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