Houdini - HQueue install & setup for windows Tutorial
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- I recently wanted to make use of HQueue in Houdini which is like a render farm. Since I have 2 machines I decided to give it a go. But installation for windows machines aren't straight forward. After a few hours of troubleshooting I figured out how to get it working. I decided to do a tutorial on it so that you don't need to go through the same pain i went through.
Hope this is useful to you.
Resource links are below
Sidefx doc: www.sidefx.com...
HQueue tutorial that links Windows and Linux:
www.sidefx.com...
ODforce forum:
forums.odforce...
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Windows Home edition local user and group creation
Right click on windows icon and select Terminal (Admin)
Create user group by typing "net localgroup hqgroup /add" (without quotes) and then enter
Create user by typing "net user hquser pa****rd /add" (without quotes and enter your password instead of "pa****rd")
Add hquser to hqgroup by typing "Add-LocalGroupMember -Group hqgroup -Member hquser" (without quotes) and then enter
Follow the rest of the tutorial as it is.
Download the Houdini installer directly, not through the launcher and it will give you the latest versions of HQueue. the launcher doesn't have python 3 version, etc.
Thank you, I didn't know.
Hi! I currently have HQueue version 20.0.547 and I can't find HQqueueClient on Services, how can I manage to resolve the issue?
It should be available in Houdini launcer under HQueue tab. Are you sure you are on 20.0.547 HQueue version?
same problem
I am running HQueue Client 20.5.278 and I have the same issue. HQueue client doesn't show up in the windows services (about 8:30 in your video). HQueue Server does show up.
The latest installer creates a HQ Client Scheduled task rather than a service. In there you can modify the properties and change the user from NETWORK SERVICE to hquser.
Hi just really new to houdini and like to get my HQueue up and running. I did everything you said but cant get my laptop to get noticed by my HQueue server machine. I am able to ping each other detect my server machine as a client as well did the windows firewall thing as well. Any help would be much appreciated.
"ping each other detect my server machine as a client"
can your server machine see the client as well? Did you start the client service on client, server service on server? Can you start the interface?
Logs please
@@ThatFeliks okay miraculously ive got my server to find the client. Now my question is i have a SMB truenas setup. Wondering which file directory to save the render.
I cant get the render to start.
I have a indie license btw.
Glad to hear you figured it out. The hip file and associated dependency files must be located in a folder that can be accessed both by server and client. Hope this helps.
no HQueueClient service in my PC, HQueue server only. I tried to start the hqueueClient.exe, but it just flashed and shut down itself in a second...F
You'll need to install HQueue Client for it to showup in the services
The latest installer creates a HQ Client Scheduled task rather than a service. In there you can modify the properties and change the user from NETWORK SERVICE to hquser.
Thanks so much for making this, when I hit submit job the clinet starts the work and then fails immediately with the error:
'"%HQPYTHON%"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
I have been looking for a solution for a few days but I am stumped. Have you encountered this before? Thanks!
You are most welcome. I think I have had this error when using Solaris context. I couldn't find a solution either, I'm afraid. But this setup should work in the OUT context.
@@resilientpicture I am tyring to use the hqscheduler for a topnetwork, so I can distrubute my work across two machines. It won't work even on the server.
I am not certain how to run this in the out context, since it seems to be an error with the scheduler. Thanks for the reponse, I think I should submit a ticket to sidefx in the morning.
If you think of anything, please let me know!
@@resilientpicture You are right it does work in the out context using hq_render. Good news for me, its not my dev environemnt. I think the HQueue Scheduler TOP node is broken.
Followed this and worked great! Thanks! What i'm having issues with is getting my Mac Studio hooked up as a client! Got any tips, guessing it might be some permission issue on the mac.
Glad it was useful. I don't use mac but permission is what the most likely issue is. I had trouble with shared folder not being accessible, this comes down the user settings in Client log on. There's some good documentation here. www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hqueue/index.html
Hope this helps.
Awesome stuff :) thanks for taking the time to do this! Does hqueue support karma XPU through solaris? Do you know?
Thank you. I am not sure about Karma XPU but found this video online. Maybe of help to you. :) th-cam.com/video/kNrW9SYuxkk/w-d-xo.html
Have you tried Deadline TOPs Scheduler? I don't like hqueue, but I cannot make deadline scheduler work either atm. When I press "Submit as Job" it sends a copy of houdini to render on deadline but is stuck at rendering with no progress (basically not doing anything)
I have not tried Deadline but there's some good documentation here. www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/top/deadlinescheduler.html
Hope this helps.
@@resilientpicture yeah I installed it supposedly correctly, still doesn’t work, will need to try on some other PCs that, maybe I have some permission issues in my windows
@@vladyslavlavrenov9167 I see, yes, permissions and antivirus blocks are the most common reasons for not working when I tried HQueue. Hence the tutorial. But I don't know about the Deadline I'm afraid.
Thank you for showing all the process step by step.
My question is why so many Houdini users uses Deadline instead?
I once tried to install Deadline but I couldn't make it work.
IMO it's because Deadline is multi-DCC manager while Hqueue works only with Houdini.
Good to know 🙂
You are most welcome. As mentioned below by the user it seems to work with other software as well.
Finaly?
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