"Grease Pencil For Houdini" HPaint Now Supports Houdini 20.5

Programmer Aaron Smith has announced that HPaint, a viewport drawing utility for Houdini that enables its user to digitally paint on any geometry, has been upgraded to version 2.0, receiving new tools, upgrades to the existing functionalities, optimizations, and more.

Developed as an open-source HDA, HPaint is similar to Blender's Grease Pencil tool for drawing in 3D, boasting robust features that allow you to perform 2D Animation tasks, draw in your viewport with Screen Drawing, control your drawing methods and enable geometry masking, as well as 'layer' your strokes with surface distance offsets and primitive groups. As described by the creator, each stroke in HPaint is a 3D card with UVs, allowing for texturing strokes similar to using a custom brush in Photoshop.

The latest HPaint 2.0 update introduced support for Houdini 20.5, along with major optimizations for cache evaluation, drawing, and data handling.

New features include a Colour Picker utility that samples the Cd attribute from the input geometry using MMB, an Output Curves Only toggle that disables stroke card construction, and a Disable Geometry Mask toggle that allows strokes to be drawn off-geometry.

Furthermore, the release enhances the existing Screen Drawing functionality, enabling users to screen draw in any present viewport and choose between the Continuous mode (always screen draw at the ScDraw Distance) and the Once mode (draw from the first depth-picked position).

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