Rudi Nieuwenhuis

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If you get it working, please make a tutorial!

Seriously? Maybe on a mixed farm with different kinds of OS, but i've had nothing but walks in the park when installing this. Granted, i've been using it for well over 15 years now, from when it was still thinkbox software, so maybe I've grown accustomed to it, but iirc it is as simple as installing executables on windows where the whole process of making a mongo db is done step by step and explained well in the documentation.
What part are you struggling with?

One pretty easy solution is Deadline. (https://docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/products/deadline/10.4/1_User%20Manual/manual/index-introduction-to-deadline.html) It is free nowadays for less the x computers and it is not too complicated to setup and has a good feature-set imho.

I'm experimenting a bit with MCP and Claude in H21.0.761 and got the MCP server running, using Anaconda instead of uv that is suggested in the github description.

In order for things to work i needed to change the PySide call in server.py from this:
from PySide2 import QtWidgets, QtCore to this:
from PySide6 import QtWidgets, QtCore

I can however imagine that the Qt6 is different from Qt5 that I understood Houdini used internally and this Houdini is 3.11 and PySide2 is max 3.10 iirc.
Would I run into UI issues with this easy fix or should i create a proper Houdini safe environment and if so what should I take into consideration?

Looking forward to any input on this.

Cheers,
Rudi