Just wondering if anyone is using deadline to render with Karma in 20.5?  Seems like this has been an ongoing issue.  

-david

We've had a few discussions now about what order licenses are checked out and whether they are being checked out correctly.

We have set HOUDINI_SCRIPT_LICENSE to be "engine" 

However we still seem to be picking up FX licenses on the farm

What I was hoping to do is setup a test job that can run on the farm and log exactly which license it grabbed, but I can't for the life of me find out how to query the exact license type from within a hou session.

I can use hou.licenseCategory  to tell if it's commercial or not 

I can also use hou.applicationName to check if I'm running hython or FX

But is there some way of printing out exactly which type of license the hou session is using? 

Many thanks!
Matt

I am trying to set up an HQueue Server on Mac OS. I installed the HQueue Server successfully using Houdini Launcher, but when I go to http://localhost:5000/ on Google Chrome, it gives a 403 error: Access to localhost was denied.

Any clues on how to solve this?

I try to install Renderman and Arnold at the same time in my Houdini Indie 18.5.351 using package json files. Unfortunately I cannot use both together. I attached the json files if anyone want to have a look. If I only use Renderman, it works fine, if I only use Arnold it works fine, as soon as I try to use both, I get errors like this if I create a new geometry:
 

Quote

 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/haggi/htoa/htoa-5.5.0.0_r5b05c8c_houdini-18.5.351/htoa-5.5.0.0_r5b05c8c_houdini-18.5.351/scripts/obj/geo.py", line 3, in <module>
    htoa.properties.initArnoldProperties(kwargs['node'])
  File "C:/Users/haggi/htoa/htoa-5.5.0.0_r5b05c8c_houdini-18.5.351/htoa-5.5.0.0_r5b05c8c_houdini-18.5.351/scripts/python\htoa\properties.py", line 167, in initArnoldProperties
    addArnoldProperties(node)
  File "C:/Users/haggi/htoa/htoa-5.5.0.0_r5b05c8c_houdini-18.5.351/htoa-5.5.0.0_r5b05c8c_houdini-18.5.351/scripts/python\htoa\properties.py", line 111, in addArnoldProperties
    node.parm('ar_matte').setExpression('ch("vm_matte")')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setExpression'

 

And the render rop node is missing a lot of necessary settings. Maybe anyone has some experience with this and can give me a hint what I can do?

Arnold.json

Renderman.json

I try figuring out workflow with shotgrid in pdg.

Based on examples i can find project and shot, but how add version for shot? Examples shows only asset workflow. I find i can add to publish and files area, but how creat a version?

If someone know how or know where to read or watch about this i will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Or what the problem could be?

File "<stdin>", line 21, in call
File "c:\hqueueserver\python27\lib\site-packages\pylons-0.9.7rc4-py2.7.egg\pylons\controllers\core.py", line 204, in call
response = self._dispatch_call()
File "c:\hqueueserver\python27\lib\site-packages\pylons-0.9.7rc4-py2.7.egg\pylons\controllers\core.py", line 159, in _dispatch_call
response = self._inspect_call(func)
File "c:\hqueueserver\python27\lib\site-packages\pylons-0.9.7rc4-py2.7.egg\pylons\controllers\core.py", line 95, in _inspect_call
result = self._perform_call(func, args)
File "c:\hqueueserver\python27\lib\site-packages\pylons-0.9.7rc4-py2.7.egg\pylons\controllers\core.py", line 58, in _perform_call
return func(**args)
File "<string>", line 2, in deleteNetworks
File "c:\hqueueserver\python27\lib\site-packages\pylons-0.9.7rc4-py2.7.egg\pylons\decorators\rest.py", line 33, in check_methods
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "<stdin>", line 60, in deleteNetworks
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'new_1'

Has anyone had success with the combination of "flip slice > rop geo out > hqscheduler"?

Thanks

E

Does somebody have any experiences on crowd simulation export in usd file?

I did a basic work around trying with:

1. agent pack but it doesn't work
2. unpack agent works well but to brut force for me

If somebody have any idea?

I gonna continue to workaround, hoping finding a way, even if not so confident.

If any advices can be helpfull.

Best Regards Mathieu

I am using houdini 19 on linux(centos) and I keep getting an error on the filecache node whenever I try to use the "save to Disk in Background" method.

The entire topnet dots just red out and shows the two warnings below in node info.

The "save to disk" option works fine though.

Warning 
Unable to read file "/home/user/Desktop/filecaeTest/geo/FIleTEst.rotBox/v1/FIleTEst.rotBox_v1.0001.bgeo.sc". 


Warning 
GeometryIO[hjson]: Unable to open file '/home/user/Desktop/filecaeTest/geo/FIleTEst.rotBox/v1/FIleTEst.rotBox_v1.0001.bgeo.sc'
GeometryIO[hclassic]: Unable to open file '/home/user/Desktop/filecaeTest/geo/FIleTEst.rotBox/v1/FIleTEst.rotBox_v1.0001.bgeo.sc' 

Also I tested saving to background in windows and it works fine. Not sure why it is does not work on linux.

Am I missing anything or any additional steps on linux required?

I'm just getting into PDG and have an interesting problem I'm trying to solve. I have a list of files that I'm trying to sort using PDG. The files are labelled x0y0,x0y1,x0y2.....x7y7. When I load them with the "filepattern" TOP, it sorts them as x0y0, x0y1, x0y2, x0y3 etc. Instead, I would like to re-sort them as x0y0,x1y0,x2y0,x3y0,x4y0 ..... x0y1,x1y1,x2y1,x3y1,x4y1 etc.

What would be the best approach for this? Any python algorithm that may be suitable for this that can be executed in TOPS? Maybe a feedback loop? 

- HQueue ERROR: Cannot find file ...
- but I have tried to manually run hython and load the file ... and from the command line tools everything works fine
- I turned off the firewall and restarted the HQueueClient service.

I have no other ideas. Please, where might be the problem?

I have a plugin, Axiom specifically, that I want to run from a network drive.  Here are the things I've tried:

- dropping the axiom folder and corresponding .json file in C:\Users\rupert\Documents\Houdini18.5\packages  (this worked...but of course it did)

This worked so I know the .json file is good, right?  So then....

- create a network directory S:\plugins\houdini\packages

- add to houdini.env
             HOUDINI_PACKAGE_DIR = "S:/plugins/houdini/packages"

- drop the axiom folder and it's json file in the above packages dir

This didn't work.  Le sigh.

Edit houdini.env,

- remove HOUDINI_PACKAGE_DIR

- add the direct path to the axiom dso and otls folders for houdini 18.5.408 to HOUDINI_PATH

              HOUDINI_PATH = "S:/plugins/houdini/packageaxiom_v01_b006/houdini18_5_408;C:/ProgramData/Redshift/Plugins/Houdini/18.5.408;&"

AND...no luck.  Nada.  Sad me.

I go to read toadstorm's post on packages, which give me resolve...to post here, because I clearly am lost.

Help a brother out...teach a man to fish...Help this Maya TD help our Houdini team out.

Thanks in advance.

-ctj

Anyone running Houdini p3 version on Deadline successfully ?

Tanguy

I need import some geometry after pdg topnet cook completely for some further calculate,  I made a simply hip file ,it's work correctly, but when i execute it from cmd or hython , something wrong happened, It seem to be ropgeometry node of topnet doesn't work.

Am I doing something wrong? 

PLEASE .. any help, thank you!

pdg_test.hip

exec.py

I have a this TOP PDG graph that sends an email. (actually the problem is that it sends too many emails)

I'm currently testing it.

So it:

1. does wedge (done)

2. runs a sim (done)

3 send an email (problem here, it sends an email but sends an email for each work item of the sim, in my case it sends me 50 emails!)..

I only need 1 email telling me that all the sim work items have completed.

I also need it to be able to continue down the chain like this, with it only sending 1 email.

So the idea is to have it do the sim, send an email when the sim is all finished, do a render, send an email when the render is all finished, etc.

*I also note that little purple icon on some nodes. What do those mean? I notice the purple icon first appears on the send email top in the chain.

EDIT: 

I was reading the documentation and found that send email is intentended to be used after a Wait For All top or at the end of a large network.

So now I'm just trying to find a way to "branch off" and send an email "off to the side" sort of speak.

Also found info on the purple icon:

When a TOP node is dynamic, a purple badge appears on the node.

cluster0.$F4.vdb

cluster1.$F4.vdb 

with a geometry import in a top network but it does not work so far. 
 

I have tryed to load them with the filerange / filepattern node and partition them into 2 work items, cluster0 and cluster1, but i got all frames at once or nothing in the geometry import.

I also tryed to create a @path attribut with a $F4 but the top network does not seem to update the frames so i only have the first frame of each cluster.

I want to compress caches with PDG. The idea is to split the cache in bundles of ~5 and compress them to then be uploaded afterwards.

So what I would need to do is remap the work items in a way that they group to a fifth. Every new work item contains the 5 paths to the bundled cache files.

If I got this setup I can trigger a python script to trigger the compression.

Can someone help?

Edit:

I just found the filecompress node and will use that.