Deadline Houdini submitter no longer works with vray installed

I always get the following error:

has no attribute ‘is_vray_renderer_node’

here is a screenshot of the Houdini error + console.
I have the latest Vray installed. removing the vray package file (to prevent its loading in Houdini) doesnt solve the issue.
I tried reinstalling the Houdini submitter using the provided installer.
any other ideas?

UPDATE: trying with different 19.5 builds which dont have Vray doesnt work. Trying with 19.0 which has no trace of Vray also doesnt work.

Hello @Ahmed_Hindy

Thanks for reaching out, did your try to reinstall Houdini Integrated submitter by following the Manual Installation Steps ? can you please try Manual Installation and see if that helps as I can see SubmitHoudiniToDeadlineFunctions.py has is_vray_renderer_node function defined which is imported as SHTDFunctions in SubmitHoudiniToDeadline.py file.

If Manual Installation doesn’t fix, can you update the version of Deadline Repository you are running ? You can get this Information from Deadline Monitor → Help → About Deadline Monitor → Repository version.

For Sanity check, verify if is_vray_renderer_node function is defined in your SubmitHoudiniToDeadlineFunctions.py file located at "C:\DeadlineRepository10\submission\Houdini\Main\SubmitHoudiniToDeadlineFunctions.py" path and update with your findings!

Thanks.

reinstalling latest Deadline and removing vray beforehand solved the issue