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Changelog

2025-12-09

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New Video (LIGHTING) Modeling for Lighting created.

2025-12-06

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New Video (Quickstart) Quickstart Welcome created.
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New Video (CAMERA) Import/Export created.

2025-12-04

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New Video (CAMERA) Moving Camera created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Basic Light theory created.

2025-12-03

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New Video (Quickstart) ACES / Colorspace Basics created.

2025-12-02

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New Video (SHADING) Emission / Glow created.
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New Video (RENDERING) AOV vs Layers created.
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New Video (RENDERING) cryptomatte created.
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New Video (SHADING) Bump / Normal created.

2025-12-01

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New Video (SOLARIS) Kinds created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) HDRI / Dome / Env Lights created.
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New Video (SHADING) Transparency / Refraction / Opacity created.

2025-11-30

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New Video (CAMERA) Basic Settings created.
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New Video (SOLARIS) ACES created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Lighting Tools created.
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New Video (INTRO) Project Tips created.
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New Video (COMPOSITING) Work in Progress created.
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New Video (SOLARIS) Matching Patterns/Expressions created.

2025-11-29

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New Video (RENDERING) AOVs / Render vars created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Gobos created.
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New Video (SOLARIS) Packed geo created.
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New Video (SHADING) Metalness created.
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New Video (SHADING) Material Overview created.
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New Video (SHADING) Transparency II - Geometry / Limits / Caustics created.

2025-11-26

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New Video (SOLARIS) Primvars (Attributes) created.
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New Video (SHADING) Material Assignment created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Old ROP Workflow Overview created.
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New Video (RENDERING) custom AOVs created.

2025-11-25

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New Video (CAMERA) Motionblur II - Camera blur created.
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New Video (RENDERING) Layers / Passes created.
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New Video (SOLARIS) Volumes created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Rendering I - Basics created.
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New Video (SHADING) Textures / Materials don't show up created.

2025-11-24

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New Video (SOLARIS) Import/Export III - Output Processors created.

2025-11-07

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New Video (SOLARIS) Working with big data (usd stitching) created.
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New Video (SHADING) black glass created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Keep your Houdini Version updated! created.

2025-10-27

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New Video (CAMERA) focal length / aperture / aspect ratio created.
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New Video (CAMERA) DOF in Solaris created.
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New Video (SHADING) Diffuse / Albedo / Colors created.
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New Video (SHADING) Material Blending created.
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New Video (SHADING) SSS / Translucency created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Contribution / Light linking created.
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New Video (SHADING) Textures I - Basics created.

2025-10-26

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New Video (SHADING) Reflection I - Specular created.
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New Video (SHADING) Reflection II - Coat / Sheen / Thin Film created.

2025-10-20

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New Video (SHADING) Old ROPs workflow created.

2025-10-15

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New Video (RENDERING) Solaris Dependency (ROPs) created.
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New Video (SHADING) brushed Chrome / Pan created.

2025-10-12

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New Video (INTRO) Houdini Render engines created.

2025-10-11

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New Video (INTRO) Additional Sources created.
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New Video (SOLARIS) Transforms created.

2025-10-08

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New Video (SHADING) Tri-planar UV Mapping created.
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New Video (SHADING) Ray Switch created.

2025-10-02

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New Video (Quickstart) Rendering II - Sampling, Limits, Denoiser created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Volumes / Fog created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Motion Blur created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Point Light created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Area Lights created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Assets / Variants created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Camera Basics created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Advanced Layering / Studio workflow created.

2025-09-30

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New Video (Quickstart) Primvars / Properties created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Import / Export created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Lights Basics created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Shading/Material Basics created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Curves / Points / Thickness created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Rendering III - Layers, AOVs, Passes created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Optimization created.
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New Video (Quickstart) Solaris Intro created.

2025-09-29

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New Video (INTRO) Rendering 101 created.
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New Video (INTRO) Introduction / Overview created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Lighting is Shading created.
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New Video (RENDERING) Intro created.
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New Video (INTRO) References created.
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New Video (SHADING) Two-Sided Materials created.
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New Video (SOLARIS) Geometry Subsets created.

2025-09-28

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New Video (CAMERA) Aspect Ratio / Cinemascope created.
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New Video (SHADING) Material Overrides created.

2025-09-27

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New Video (INTRO) Course Introduction created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) cinematic vs. real lighting created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Light direction created.
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New Video (INTRO) Roadmap created.

2025-09-22

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New Video (Quickstart) Instancing created.

2025-09-19

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New Video (Quickstart) Solaris Theory created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Shape Lights created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Glow I - Geometry Lights created.

2025-09-18

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New Video (INTRO) Software created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Spot Light (Function) created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) IES Lights created.
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New Video (LIGHTING) Distant Light created.

2025-09-15

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New Video (LIGHTING) Instanced lights created.