hey all,

is there a way to unload the houdini engine plugin once it has been used in a scene ? I've tried deleting all nodes of type “houdiniAsset”, deleting the UI etc. When I try to unload the plugin (either from mel or from the interface) I still get the error message “cannot unload the plugin because it is still in use”.


any ideas ? Is this possible ? Currently the only way seems to be to call scene->new.

thanks

-G

ok, it looks like it works if I flush the undo queue.

thanks

-G

Yup, flushUndo would be the MEL way to do this. This behavior should be the same as any Maya plugin. The reason is because Maya still keeps the node stored inside the undo queue, so the plugin is still “being used”.

thanks. It does indeed work, but I am noticing that it is not relinquishing the license. Is this the expected behaviour ?

-G

Yeah, that's the expected behavior unfortunately. The license isn't released until Maya exits.

egads, could I make this an RFE ?

-G

oops, I see it was already made an RFE.

thanks

-G