Brad Thompson

2+ years later and I'm still wondering this. H20 has a built-in, read-only gallery available through the material linker node. Is there a way for me to create my own material gallery?

Quick update on this... I'm 70% sure that deadline is causing the problem for me. It appears to be pulling a gui license when rendering, instead of an engine license. I saw a thread on the thinkbox forum, saying they are aware of the problem and working on a fix, but the thread is from 3 years ago. https://forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/t/houdini-ifd-generation-using-gui-license/25398 [forums.thinkboxsoftware.com]

I'm not sure if it's the same issue you are describing, but I recently started using sidefx as my license server and have been having random lockout issues. It seems to happen mostly when I'm rendering in the background or have some background houdini task running, such as caching geo to disk. I don't think it's ever happened when I'm NOT doing something like that. I'll be working in the UI, and suddenly get a popup saying there are no licenses available, and houdini shuts down with no opportunity to save my work. I can use the license administrator, so it doesn't seem to be a communication problem with sidefx. It didn't happen before switching to using sidefx as a license server. It's quite sporadic, which makes it hard to track down the problem.