John Laniu

I also am getting weird errors when I try and download the offline version of the Houdini Launcher directly from sidefx's website. I did see that they posted about doing some maintenance today, but that was supposed to be done by 10:30 am edt. Maybe things are still under maintenance. Is anyone else having this issue?

Houdini Launcher was working just fine until I upgraded it to 19.0.561. Now, I cannot install any version of Hqueue client or server. See the log below. Can anyone help me out with this. I have tried to do a clean install and cannot get it to work.

Houdini Launcher 19.0.561 (MSVC 19.29.30136.0)
Command: "C:\\Program Files\\Side Effects Software\\Launcher\\19.0.561\\bin\\houdini_installer.exe" "install" "HQueue Server" "--version" "19.0.561" "--platform" "win64-vc142" "--build-option" "py2" "--installdir" "C:/HQueueServer" "--strict" "--accept-EULA" "SideFX-2021-10-13" "--share-name" "hq" "--service-name" "HQueueServer" "--shared-folder-mount" "H:\\" "--shared-dir" "" "--session-id" "pca081rojhk3wn7h6i4zh48u8dcsm8g7"
Preparing to install
Error while processing installation options: Error reading JSON file /protected-installer-downloads/Houdini19.0/houdini-py2-19.0.561-win64-vc142/overview.json/: illegal value

I keep getting a strange issue with backburner. Is anyone else having a problem with backburner server completing a submitted job with Houdini Engine for 3ds Max installed in the plugins folder? As soon as I remove HoudiniEngineFor3DSMax.dlu from 3ds max plugins folder, backburner server can render and complete jobs again. However, the houdini engine does open up just fine inside of 3ds max. I'm not sure if it's some kind of permissions issue or something else. Any suggestions?