This was fun!
The struggle was worth it
Now on to regular sleeping hours~

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Blitz dance animation by Ave Espelita.
Check out his works here [vimeo.com]!

thanks for the info jsmack~
i have 19.0.455.. tried installing it (and hserver), sadly it didn't work.

so i went and checked this folder to confirm the version:
C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini Server
the hserver here being used to run the service is not 19.0.455!

so i went into my 19.0.455/bin folder, grabbed the hserver.exe there and replaced the one at outer folder (at the Houdini Server folder).
some windows permission stuff will pop-up, just press ok on those.

after that, it now works!
hserver service does not auto-stop anymore.

but, another issue surfaced.
i had this same issue the other day.
this is where license server says you need to login (even though you can clearly see that you are logged in on the License Administrator - top right).
support said that i grab 19.0.573 because there were fixes there related to this login issue.

since i still have 576 installed, i just grabbed the hserver from its bin folder and copied it over to the outer hserver (again).
now it works!

my guess in the situation is that maybe the outer hserver.exe (here C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini Server) didn't have proper permissions, thus the services kept stopping it.
but when i overwritten it, maybe permissions were updated.

hopefully this sticks >_<
have spent all night yesterday and all day today troubleshooting this.
i even reached the point of reinstalling windows 4 times already haha

Hey folks, just checking here if anyone else is encountering this issue?

If i try to manually restart the hserver service, it would immediately stop again.

I'm already in comms with the sidefx support

H19.0.576
Windows 10 Pro

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rmagee

Emomilol1213
So my interpretation from this is that I could do any missing dailies from April 1-3 as long as I have all 31 done for the April 4th contact sheet submission? Or was that April 4th from last year?

yes - you have April 1-3 to catch up - the contact sheet must be posted before midnight April 4, 2022. Your entries must also be posted to the appropriate forum as well as being added to the contact sheet.

awesome! thank you for clarifying this!
we'll be able to catch up with the missing entries (and catch up on some sleep haha)

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Emomilol1213
So regarding the Ironheart challenge, can I submit missing challenges on April 1-3, etc, and then the contact sheet on April 4th? Or does every daily still have to be submitted by tomorrow?

on the Rules page.. it mentions this:

The whole forum will be closed on March 31, 2022 at Midnight EST/EDT so the judges can review all the completed work.

looks like we won't be able to submit past that date due to the closure : (

although i do also wish we can still submit daily challenges we missed so that we can include it on the contact sheet before the deadline >_<

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Batch Mode set to Custom Batch Size of 100 seems to be working (at least the workitem processing time is consistent).
But this is not using the HDA Processor Service (as it does not work with batching).

I'm still curious if something like this could work for the Service. Mainly because i got faster processing of workitems using it.

I have for example:

• 5000 workitems generated.
  
• each will go thru an HDA Processor
  
• the HDA processor uses HDA Processor Service
  

how do I process (for example) only 100 workitems at a time? Then ask the the HDA Processors to restart or refresh before continuing to process the remaining workitems?

i tried partitioning the workitems and used the forloop TOPs set to One Loop Per Partition... hoping that on each partition loop, it will start fresh. but it seems it's not the case XD

question is related to this unanswered post:
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/83095/ [www.sidefx.com]

unfortunately, i'm currently unable to provide a file as this is for work under NDA >___<

super useful tool~

and in some cases, the polycut technique shown here can be faster:
https://www.sidefx.com/forum/topic/14838/?page=2#post-302470 [www.sidefx.com]
just add at polypath at the end to connect them.

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