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Hi, 

 

Every day I believe I spend about 1-2h a day trying to send jobs properly to HQueue.

 

I dont know if it's just a nature of HQueue, or maybe taht the pipeline for H where I work has not been developed yet.

 

I can't find the rule how it's working, but thats how it looks like:

 

Very often I get very strange resaults on my sims (ones that were calculated via HQueue). It looks like that HQueue is using some old (kept somewhere is the disc maybe?) files ? Just like HQueue render node has blocked itself and is keeping sending the same job, no matter what. And sometimes I just get an empty (sim) files...

 

When I sim locally everything is ok, but when it comes to HQueue... I'm not lying, but 50% of the jobs are completely %$^#^^!

 

And as I said every day I'm spending tons of time trying just to send the job on the HQueue properly, which is driving me crazy right now, because I can't sim locally!

 

Any advice? Did anyone had the same issues? Because it looks like I'm the only one in the complany that is having that strange issues.

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Are you certain that everything in your scene file uses scene-file-relative paths (and of course whatever files they're referencing are located on the network share)?  If there's a disparity between a local and hqueue render, it sounds likely that somewhere you're referencing a local file, or a network file with an absolute path, rather than specifying paths as "$HIP/something/something"

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Hi, 

 

I'm not using any local paths. Howeven now that u mention that I seem to remember strange behaviour with the $HIP path. It tends to change very often, sometimes it's the full path, sometimes it's just the path to the disc, and I'vbe even seen a double path.

 

Than it would be a pipeline issue?

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Not sure if it's relevant but you can RMB on a path name sometime and get Expand Path /Simplify Path. Perhaps that is why see the full path sometimes.

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Also, you'll want to make sure $JOB is properly set (in addition to $HIP) with the same tip Marty shared; and make sure your shared folder is seen by all machines, and your folder permissions are setup correctly so that hquser/yourself can read/write. My HQ experience has only been on Linux, but permissions were the culprit almost every time when jobs were erroring out. Or I was pointed to the wrong ROP in my HQ Submit.

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Hi, 

 

I'm not using any local paths. Howeven now that u mention that I seem to remember strange behaviour with the $HIP path. It tends to change very often, sometimes it's the full path, sometimes it's just the path to the disc, and I'vbe even seen a double path.

 

Than it would be a pipeline issue?

 

THIS!  I am using relative paths in my huodini scene files.  When I open the file browser next to the path I see, at the top, in red, $HIP/$HIP/my_path/etc...  Is there a fix for this?  It's got me stopped in my tracks.  

 

I'm also seeing it where the first $HIP is expanded to an explicit path, e.g.:

 

C:\Users\john...\$HIP\my_path\etc...

 

 

This is driving me crazy!  Help!

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