ciohoudini 0.4.11

Houdini submitter hda for the Conductor Cloud Rendering Platform.

Conductor for Houdini

A ROP to submit work from Houdini to Conductor's cloud. Compatible with Python3 versions of Houdini for all platforms. Available to beta customers. Contact us!

Install

To install the latest version.

pip install --upgrade ciohoudini --target=$HOME/Conductor

To install a specific version, for example 0.1.0.

pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall ciohoudini==0.1.0 --target=$HOME/Conductor

Then setup the Houdini module.

python ~/Conductor/ciohoudini/post_install.py

NOTE An alternative is to install from the Plugins page in the Conductor Companion app

Usage

Create a ConductorJob Rop and attach a render nodes. Use the Conductor->Submit menu item to submit several jobs, or press the Submit button in a job's properties panel.

For detailed help, checkout the tutorial and reference documentation.

Contributing

Clone the repo.

git clone [e-mail]:ConductorTechnologies/ciohoudini.git
cd ciohoudini

Set up a clean virtual envirionment with Python 2.7 for development (optional).

python -m virtualenv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate

Install development dependencies

pip install -r requirements_dev.txt

Build and install from this directory into to a convenient location for testing.

pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt --target=$HOME/ConductorDev

python $HOME/ConductorDev/ciohoudini/post_install.py

When you install from the file requirements.txt, the dependency on ciocore is specified as a local sibling of this project, meaning you can develop ciocore and ciohoudini in parallel.

The post_install.py script writes the conductor.json file to the packages directory in your Houdini prefs. Check the output of the command to see where this is for your platform.

License

MIT

Changelog

Version:0.4.11 -- 23 Sep 2022

• Remove circular dependency. [1db1374]

Version:0.4.10 -- 20 Jul 2022

• The default dependency scraping algorithm has been tightened up in order to avoid accidentally scraping the home directory. [cef8338]

• Adds a convenient button to copy the render script to shared location. This is useful if an uploader daemon is running on a machine that does not have access to the Conductor installation. [abc8989]

• Adds a UI that allows you to add existing local environment variables to be set on the remote Linux render node. Any Windows path variables are converted to Posix paths. [fa83ba6]

• If the OCIO variable is set locally, it is added to the remote environment, and the containing folder is uploaded. [2b76b20]

• The convenience function to add HDAs to the asset list now adds the .hda files, and not the entire folder, which could include several backup files.

• Ensure that any assets that happen to be found in the output folder are excluded from the upload.

• If file references are found to have relative paths, we now tests to see if they exist in the HIP folder, and if not, we don't upload them. If they just happen to found in the folder where Houdini was invoked from, then we treat them as missing and ignore them.

• If file references are found to be internal to Houdini (op:... temp:... etc.) then we ignore them.

Version:0.4.8 -- 19 Jul 2022

• The asset-scan regular expression now detects any tokens between angle brackets, even custom tokens like <OBJ_NAME> It also allows for more variation of delimiters around number expressions, such as _###_ or .###- etc. [d2235eb]

Version:0.4.7 -- 19 Jul 2022

• Implement a pathmapping function in chrender which will turn Windows paths into Posix paths. [a7b84f2]

Version:0.4.6 -- 15 Jul 2022

• Validate thath assets are accessible by the uploader daemon.
• Replace backslashes for forwards slashes in the output path.

Version:0.4.5 -- 14 Jul 2022

• Fix local upload and enable driver browse. [9c57ed0]

Version:0.4.4 -- 13 Jul 2022

• Workaround for an issue with hserver 18.5. Explicitly set it to use 19.0 and set a variable to cause the hserver to use HTTP. [da52188]

Version:0.4.3 -- 12 Jul 2022

• Turn off the CONDUCTOR_PATHHELPER variable for all submissions. [7c616de]

Version:0.4.2 -- 11 Jul 2022

• Scrape hdas and give the option to embed HDAs automatically. [83de99f]

Version:0.4.1 -- 07 Jul 2022

• Add the Vray Renderer node to the list of supported drivers. [a63ed81])

Version:0.4.0 -- 07 Jul 2022

• Implements a Submission dialog to present validation messages, submission responses, and dashboard links.

Version:0.3.4 -- 06 Jul 2022

Various fixes for installation on Windows.

Version:0.3.1 -- 07 Jun 2022

• Added documentation. Use the (?) icon in the node UI. [5dddca3]
• Fixed bug where the payload was not updated when a new node was created after a connection had already been established. [121c03d]

Version:0.3.0 -- 04 Jun 2022

• Now renders mantrra, renderman, anmd dop simulation.

Version:0.2.0 -- 02 May 2022

• Work in progress

Version:0.1.3 -- 26 Apr 2021

• Frame sequences section working. [96fd012]

Version:0.1.2 -- 22 Apr 2021

• Move post_install script to the correct place. [d3d49be]

Version:0.1.1 -- 22 Apr 2021

• Add boilerplate for pip and circle-ci, migrate houdini from client tools, adds ciocore data integration such as packages, inst types, and projects. WIP still, but at least there are no errors on node creation. [a914e69]

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