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.