Howdy,
okay so i've read the houdini engine manuals, watched videos, troubleshooted, and i have no idea how to actually get unreal to start the session so i can actually use houdini assets. the plugin's installed, what am i missing??

do i need houdini open? do i need to press some button in houdini? i tried the session sync thing but that didn't connect i just got 109 errors. the plugin is installed correctly, it's just not connecting. things show up in the starter kit project but i can't edit them as all Houdini Enginge Sessions attempts fail. it's driving me up the wall, i've been at this for 3 hours and the documentation for this is very bad.

A simple step by step process for wtf i'm supposed to do would be deeply appreciated, i'm dead-stuck.

EDIT: Okay so i slept and dug more into error logs, it seems like the plugin on the github that the main page tells you to use is out of date or something. 3.5 instead of needed 3.6. it works now that i used to latest one downloaded from the launcher tool