Houdini: 18.0.348
HtoA: 4.4.2
Arnold: 5.4.0.2
I've just download htoa for the first time and tried to get it running in Houdini. I have a simple scene of a cube, a grid, camera, and an arnold spot light. All of them have arnold properties attached. In the Out context I have an Arnold ROP. Clicking "Render" in the render view with the Arnold ROP and camera selected, I get a gross result where the light appears to be affecting the render but there are no shadows. What's going on?
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The default shader is the Utility shader, which doesn't use lights. So no shadows.
I find this to be quite bizarre, especially coming from c4dtoa where you can get lights and shadows in a scene of objects with absolutely no textures at all.