Release 0.10.0

• Minimal Houdini version bumped to 20.0.625.
• Support new geometry attribute APIs and add several previously missing APIs.
• Several (minimal) public APIs have been changed changed.
• Other fixes and cleanup

Release 0.9.3

• Bump Houdini version to 19.5.716.
• Add API for working with parameter tags.
• String parameters of type Node can take NodeHandle values.
• More PDG WorkItem APIs.
• Expose cache APIs.

Release 0.9.1

Changes:

• Remove internal Mutex from Session.
• Slightly improved Parameter APIs.
• Use StringHandle instead of i32.
• Update examples.
• Minor cleanups and improvements across the crate.

Release 0.9.0

[0.9.0]

New

• New builder pattern for creating nodes.
• New start_houdini_server function will launch Houdini application
  with engine server running in it. See live_session.rs example.
• Add many missing library functions.
• Find parameter with tags: Node::parameter_with_tag
• Interactive GUI app example that renders the COP network and displays as image.
• Assets can be loaded from memory
• Can now revert parameter values to default.
• Can now remove parameter expressions.
• New Parameter::save_parm_file to save the file from the parameter to disk.
• Can now delete geometry attributes.

Changed

• Simplified Session::create_node only take node name now. Use builder pattern for
  more options.
• connect_to_pipe now take an optional timeout parameter, and will try to connect multiple times
  until connected or timeout runs out.
• State enum renamed to SessionState
• Move all tests from modules to /tests/..
• Improved image extraction APIs.
• Add support for creating nodes for more asset types with less boilerplate code.
• Fixed setting of array geometry attributes.

Release 0.8.0

[0.8.0]

Changed

• AssetLibrary::try_create_first() can now crate nodes other than of Object type.
• Functions taking optional parent (Option<NodeHandle>) are now generic and can take HoudiniNode too.
• Improve the error type handling and printing.
• Remove CookOptions arg from HoudiniNode::cook, instead there's a new HoudiniNode::cook_with_options.
• Add lots of debug_assert! for input validation.

New

• ManagerType enum represents a network root node.
• Add several missing geometry APIs.

Release 0.7.0

[0.7.0]

Changed

• Reworked parameter APIs
  • Separate get/set and get_array/set_array methods
  • get/set now take an index of a parameter tuple.
  • Eliminate extra String clone for set_* string parameters.
• MSRV 1.65

Release 0.6.0

[0.6.0]

New

• Switch to HAPI-5.0 (Houdini 19.5) API.
• Implement most common PDG APIs for event-based (async) cooking.
• Builder pattern for SessionOption
• Example of event-based cooking of PDG network.

Changed

• Make DataArray types public.
• Session creation APIs now require SessionOptions argument.
• Add new metadata to Session handle with extra information about connection.
• Improve the error type, it now has better error reporting for some APIs.
• Lots of improvements and cleanups.
• Improve build instructions and API documentation.
• More unit tests.