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Coming soon:
Posted on Oct 19, 2012
    Coming soon:  Version history for your assets, a redesign of the upload page. Also be sure to use the latest version of houdini for all the latest fixes!

New assets: New Railway builder, new shaders, plus some cool utilities. A lot of these files are open for viewing so you can learn how the author put them together.
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
    What makes weekends great...(besides sleeping in)? It's when most authors upload their work! Check out the latest assets!

Including an example file gets faster activation.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
    Authors: Including an example makes activation faster. Be sure to include a hip file when you upload your assets. This makes it much easier and faster to review and QA. Your customers will appreciate it too!

OpenID bug fixed when syncing
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
    You may have experienced a strange OpenID authentication error when attempting to sync assets from Houdini, particularly when logging in with your sidefx.com account, but we have fixed that error.

Rate it: Hot or not?
Posted on Jul 02, 2013
    Hot or NOT? Rate an asset today! Or PM the author with feedback. Authors need to know that we're checking out their work. Who knows, you may just get an upgrade. Multiple ratings help set other's expectations before downloading an asset. Your ratings and feedback count!

Author Page Enhanced: change icon, add screen shots, rename asset...
Posted on Sep 14, 2012
    The author page has been updated with several new options. You can now add/remove screen shots, change the assets store icon, and rename your asset.

VOP Support
Posted on Sep 14, 2012
    VOP support has been added so uploading should work fine now. Try it out and let us know if you have any issues.

Add movies - Include a Vimeo or YouTube URL at upload time
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
    You can add a Youtube or Vimeo URL to your asset! It will show up in your assets gallery alongside your screen shots. If you need to add the video URL after the fact, or add a second URL, simply re-upload the same otl file. The store will recognize it (you'll know because many of the entry fields will be pre-populated with your previous answers).

We now support copy-protected free assets
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
    Free assets can now be compiled. Use the checkbox to enable this option when you upload your asset

Please upgrade to a new build of Houdini 12.1
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
    Please upgrade to Houdini 12.1.65+ fixes. This build fixes a bug with the following scenario: - You install the trial of asset A. It depends on asset B so Houdini downloads the trial of asset B. - You install the commercial version of asset A. The Orbolt store will also give you the commercial version of asset B. However, Houdini won't download the commercial version of asset B because it believes that asset B is already installed (becaues the trial version is installed) For those of you on Linux, there is also a fix for a problem where VOP nodes would fail and Mantra would not start when launching example files from the Orbolt store.

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