Fixed items disappearing while scene update in animated scenes
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ROP's base file name parameter default to "$HIP/render/$HIPNAME.$OS.orbx"

Appreciate both of these fixes. Nice to see OCIO updated too.

Octane Quick Material

So good!!

Thanks for supporting 20.5.445 so quickly.

karl wrote:OCIO v2.1 is supported, but that config requires OCIO v2.3. Support for v2.3 is coming - the plan is to have it ready for 2025.1.

Brilliant. Thank you.

Is it possible to get support for OpenColorIO v2?

It looks like 2025.1 (and 2026.1) are still struggling to parse cg-config-v2.2.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.3.ocio. Displaying "No config file" under preferences.

Unless it's something I'm doing incorrectly.

I don’t think we expose the up vector controls in Houdini. Is there a specific reason you need it exposed? Are you trying to use Perspective correction?
I'd like to navigate around in Standalone, at the moment models skew off screen when I try to move the camera.

Eg: In Houdini, drop a cube ...

As for the orbit around object, there is a specific tool in standalone to help with this as far as I know, (Camera Target Picker) but also if you set Target on the camera to 0.0.0 then it should orbit at world center.
Brilliant. I needed an up-vector of 0,1,0 too.

Is there somewhere I could ...

- Unconnected nodes are deleted before exporting scene to orbx file
I am a big fan of this, thank you. It would be nice if unused AOV's could be cleaned up too.

One issue I do have. When exporting an orbx file and opening it within Standalone, I don't seem to be able to orbit around an object. It ...

- Mac builds are codesigned and notarized

Never thought I'd see the day. Thank you!

Still no update on this ?
Had to reinstall Embergen at one point and now I can't access any of my files because they were created in a version too recent ><
With only a few weeks of the Black Friday deal left to run and Embergen staff publically stating they don't plan to renew the Otoy BF deal ...

Update: Figured out I was running the Intel / Rosetta version of 19.5.640 by mistake. I have it working now, phew.

For whatever reason, the Apple Silicon version of Houdini has never run from the Houdini Terminal.app - making it harder to debug.