Hello, when I use the Background render Houdini indie gives me a watermark, is it a restriction in indie or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

Do you have a HoudiniEngine license installed? I think if you're not rendering from the interface (submitting jobs via hqueue) it might have issues.

Hi thanks for your reply, I checked my License utility and I cant find a Houdini Engine license, I have to check if you are supposed to get one with Indie License.

Regards

That might be it!
Although, if I understand my correspondence with support you shouldn't need an engine license to run Hqueue on your machine with indie installed.

Also, I assumed in my reply that you're using hqueue to manage your background renders- is that the case?

And yup- you're entitled to three engine licenses with your indie purchase.

Hoping to do some testing this weekend. If I do I'll report my findings!

I just use the render to desk in background from the Mantra Rop.

Ah well that is strange!
I'd contact support. They're pretty good about helping out.

Similar issue here when running a sim in the background. It want's to switch to non-commercial mode when loading the saved files.

What happened? Did you get it working?

Wondering if licensing Indie without licensing the Renderer as well (they are separate entitlements) would cause this.

Upgrading to the latest daily build solved my issue. Support was very helpful.

Thanks for the update. Support rocks!

I have the same issue with Background render, with the latest build. Fingers crossed, that Support will help