skral

Just to do a quick follow up for future reference. Thanks Stalkerx777 but since I need hou.fileReferences() to run in the main thread and it is the function locking up the UI there is no benefit of running everything else in another thread. I can't run hou.fileReferences(). Created a feature request with SideFX.

Thank you for your help.

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it doesn't help. Like the support suggested when using hou the UI is locked. Even if I run it in the session.

Any other ideas? Is anybody checking for dependencies? Either to send to a remote renderfarm/cloud or to keep track of it for production purposes?

Cheers,
Sebastian

Hi,

I am trying to find all file dependencies. With the help of hou.fileReferences() and some filtering I get all the inputs. Great but it's locking up the UI while it is checking. I am counting more than 20 seconds on some of my test scenes which is too long because it is supposed to record all the dependencies on saving the file with our custom save script.

After contacting the support I was informed hou will always lock up the UI so no run the check in the background either. I am wondering if anybody found a better solution to getting all dependencies without locking up the UI?

Looking forward to some MacGyver solutions ;-)

Thanks,
Sebastian