Palladio v1.7.0

Better late than never comes the final release of v1.7.0!

There are no functional changes compared to the beta, but we've updated the Houdini 18.0 builds to the current production build 18.0.460.

Thanks for your patience!

Palladio v1.7.0-beta.1

Welcome to the first beta of the v1.7.0 release!

Changes compared to v1.7.0-pre:

• Added support for Houdini 18 and removed Houdini 16 (#143).
• Updated built artifacts to latest Houdini minor versions (#139):
  • 17.0.506
  • 17.5.460
  • 18.0.287
• Filter unnecessary components of PRT from release (#141).
• Fixed pipeline to not install files outside of the install directory (#138).

Palladio v1.7.0-pre

Welcome to a minor (pre-) release of Palladio!

Changes include:

• Main visible change is the improved installation experience. Palladio does not require setting the PATH environment variable anymore on Windows.
• A big change behind the scene is the update to CityEngine SDK (PRT) 2.1 with support for the latest CGA features and Rule Packages (RPK).
• We now only pass non-default rule attribute value to PRT. This fixes setting inter-dependent rule attributes. As a consequence the pldGenerate node will not emit all rule attribute values anymore (if the corresponding switch is enabled).

Palladio v1.6.3

Welcome to another maintenance release!

• A small optimization in the "Houdini Encoder" reduces cooking time for e.g. the "Parthenon" example from CityEngine tutorial 9 by about a factor of 7. The optimization mainly helps with CGA rules which create a lot of small meshes.
• Added a small doc section about exporting Alembic files from CityEngine for Palladio

Palladio v1.6.2

Welcome to another maintenance release!

Only one change:

• Fixed broken texture coordinates in the generated Houdini geometry in case not all PRT meshes have any texture coordinates (#118).

Palladio v1.6.1

Welcome to another maintenance release of Palladio:

• Added support for texture coordinates on incoming initial shapes (#112).
• Assign SOP: do not overwrite main attributes like pldStartRule if they are already present on the incoming geometry (#111).
• Assign SOP: fixed rule attribute default value evaluation (each primitive can have different main attributes) (#111).
• Fixed support for PolygonSoup primitives as initial shapes (#110).
• Updated Favela example
• Updated CityEngine Material HDA

Palladio v1.6.0

Welcome to some big changes under the hood of Palladio:

• Added support for PRT 2.0 which is now free for non-commercial use!
• Palladio now supports all the latest CityEngine 2019.0 CGA capabilities.
• Removed technical requirement for CityEngine license with PRT 2.0
• Added support for the new PRT 2.0 PBR material attributes.
• Various build system improvements (e.g. to support both PRT 1.x and 2.x).
• More example content, please see https://esri.github.io/palladio

Palladio v1.5.0

Functionally identical release to 1.5.0-beta.2, but the plugin has been rebuilt against latest Houdini versions:

• Houdini 16.5.634
• Houdini 17.0.506
• Houdini 17.5.229

Palladio v1.5.0-beta.2

Fixed a bug where the "pldAssign" node with an empty Rule Package field could trigger a crash.

Palladio v1.5.0-beta.1

Now supporting Houdini Digital Assets (HDAs) and Houdini 17.5!

CityEngine Rule Packages (RPK) can now be embedded into HDAs and referenced with the oplib/opdef syntax:

Known issues in beta:

• Wrong texture coordinates in rare cases
• Slow handling of embedded files (e.g. RPK) inside HDAs (we extract them to disk first).