Houdini 19 and tk-houdini 1.8.1 Startup Errors

Pipeline Integrations
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Hello!
We are migrating over to the newly released Houdini 19 for kinefx features, and we’re getting hit out of the gate with:

C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.383/packages/kinefx/viewer_states/kinefx__skeletonstate/__init__.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.383/houdini/python3.7libs\viewerstate\utils.py", line 948, in register_pystate
    mod = importlib.import_module(module_name)
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.383\python37\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 728, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Shotgun\bundle_cache\app_store\tk-houdini\v1.8.1\python\__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from .tk_houdini import *
  File "C:\PROGRA~1\SIDEEF~1\HOUDIN~1.383\python37\lib\site-packages-forced\shiboken2\files.dir\shibokensupport\__feature__.py", line 142, in _import
    return original_import(name, *args, **kwargs)
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

This has the effect of not being able use the Show/Edit Handle tool when building rigs, for example. The Houdini-Python eco system seems to have changed significantly is this release, I’m hoping there’s a fix for it?

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Hi,

Thank you for your feedback. ShotGrid Toolkit integration does not support Houdini 19 yet. You can see the list of our supported versions here: Engine Supported Versions - SG Developer

Support for Houdini 19 is on our roadmap, so please do not hesitate to post other issues you might found with that version.

Cheers,
Francis

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Thanks for getting back to me Francis, is there an ETA for support of 19?

Thanks,
Adam

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Hi Adam,

Sorry, no ETA for now.

Cheers,
Francis

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Just a quick follow up to this… it seems like the issue is actually caused by a python viewer_state loading mechanism that erroneously calls a few ambiguous relative imports. The tk-houdini error happens to be a red herring. We fixed it by hacking the shipped houdini scripts… which I don’t recommend…

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That’s strange, because here I’ve been using H19 with toolkit since beta and I didn’t have the errors you reported.

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Based on our first investigation it seems happening only on Windows and Linux, not on mac. Also it is only happening with an advanced integration.

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I’m on windows too and I’m using a very customized pipeline too…

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It is easy to miss, since it appears to be specific to the kinefx__skeletonstate module. We found that without our hack, if you drop a skeleton sop, for example, the handle tool is broken (cannot draw bones etc).

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I’ve reported that in the beta but they took some time to figure that out. It has been fixed:

Houdini 19.0.435 : Fix an issue related to viewer state module loading that was causing the Skeleton SOP state to be missing when 3rd party packages are installed.

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Fantastic, thank you for pointing that out!
(We’ve only ever installed the production builds)

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I wouldn’t call the gold release “production”! haha

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Apparently Houdini19 is still not supported by tk-houdini 1.8.1. We are getting this error that its generic visualizer is clashing with the one bundled with houdini19.

Traceback (most recent call last): 44 File “C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.383/houdini/python3.7libs\pdgd\types_init_.py”, line 63, in registerPythonModules 45 pdgd.TypeRegistry.registerModuleTypes(module, True) 46 File "C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.383/houdini/python3.7libs\pdgd_init.py", line 110, in _registerModuleTypes 47 module.registerTypes(pdgd.TypeRegistry.Instance()) 48 File “C:/Program Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 19.0.383/houdini/pdgd/types\genericvisualizer.py”, line 74, in registerTypes 49 type_registry.registerVisualizer(GenericVisualizer) 50 File "C:/PROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.383/houdini/python3.7libs\pdgd_init.py", line 95, in _registerVisualizer 51 return self._registerVisualizer(type_object, name, label) 52RuntimeError: A type already exists with the name genericvisualizer

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I’ve been using SG with H19 from the beginning successfully. What are u trying to do?
You are using the H19 gold (buggy) version right? Anyway, you should try the newest production build…

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Thx… I will try