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Houdini Development Toolkit - Version 6.5

Side Effects Software Inc. 2004

Houdini

Version Notes for Houdini3.0

This document covers some of the changes which may be required to convert code written for Houdini2.5 to operate correctly with Houdini3.0.

Customization
Area
Changes
POPs A new method checkActivation(POP_ContextData*, POP_FParam) should now be used to check if the POP should be active. This method will take care of allowing certain local variables in the field. It also ensures that the definition of what is active is consistent among all POPs.
POPs In order for POPs derived from POP_LocalVar to understand user added attributes, it must call the method setupDynamicVars(POP_ContextData*) right after it locks its inputs.


Table of Contents
Operators | Surface Operations | Particle Operations | Composite Operators | Channel Operators
Material & Texture | Objects | Command and Expression | Render Output |
Mantra Shaders | Utility Classes | Geometry Library | Image Library | Clip Library
Customizing UI | Questions & Answers

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