Hi,
Is there a timeline for H20.5 support? Trying to add it myself using the imaginary Maya guide - but for some reason the 20.5 option is not showing up in the Configure Plugin.
Thank you
/plugins/Houdini
Edit Houdini.param
Just make sure to change index number as well.
In mine I’ve actually removed all those extra versions and left only 2 of them for H20 and h20.5
I did that but its still not showing up- I am thinking that potentially there are too many versions - will delete the rest just like you did, thanks!
I deleted all other versions - but the Configure Plugins still shows them- and is not showing the 20.5 - as if it was ignoring the param file - is there any way to force-read it?
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Never mind - figured it out - it was reading it from Deadline\Custom\plugins\Houdini\ instead
glad you found it sry was away fro 2 days did not see new messages. glad it sorted out.
it is shame that deadline does not do these fixes …
It is like they don’t really care much about as small users but just focused on big cloud customers 
Have you been able to get Houdini 20.5 to render through deadline?
I’m getting a Renderer returned non-zero error code, -1073740791
Have tried 20.0.688, have tried 20.5.278.
Redshift, Mantra.
Other DCC’s working fine through deadline.
Jobs submits without any errors.
Simple test scene with a sphere. Renders fine through Houdini.
Just can’t figure this out.
What you are describing is a crash (Access Violation) of Houdini. This likely means that it cannot start on the render nodes at all. Could you try interactively invoking hython on a farm machine? This might also provide more information about the crash.
Thank you for your help.
When I run hython, it loads Redshift, then gives me the error:
QWidget: Must construct a QApplication before a QWidget
So this seems similar to this ShotGrid issue Tk-houdini engine for Houdini 20 - #10 by Will - Pipeline Integrations - Community @ Flow Production Tracking
I suppose there is some change that made QApplication instantiation stricter…? Not sure.
Anyway, headless renders should not need a QWidget QApplication. Redshift should foresee such a scenario.
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I got the plugin working, but only if I go to ‘render submit to deadline’ I followed the same steps I used in H20, but for w/e reason the deadline rop just wont load anything.
I hit ‘submit’ it acts like its working, then returns nothing.
Hi.
We’ve been testing on the farm (we’re still on DL 10.3.0.15) with Houdini 20.5.278 and Redshift 3.6.04 (windows 10 and 11). We’ve been able to render with Redshift via Houdini and standalone Redshift without any issues. htoa 6.3.3.1 is also working for us.
We’re also using the latest Deadline ROP that is posted on the mega-ultra-long thread (below) so we can use Husk standalone. Like others, we’ve modified it for our environment.
Did you try re-applying the custom build 3.6.04 again? Maybe something didn’t get extracted or copied over?
HI
Thanks for your reply.
I’ve tracked my problem down. Wasn’t anything to do with RS, as I initially thought.
Seems the error is caused by my pipeline tool (Prism). But the dev will still look into it and confirm.
If I disable the tool, hython has no errors, and therefore Deadline is happy.
Excellent. Glad you were able to track it down.