AY-6230 - Submitting pointcache product type to farm is always a single file

[MustafaJafar]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Current Behavior:

It happens with Alembics and Bgeos

So, I've added $F4 to my alembic rop output file to have a separate sequence of alembic files.
It works as expected with local publishing

However when submitting to farm I always get one file

Although, I've set the frame per task to 1

With Bgeo, it fails completely :(

2024-07-31 18:21:16:  0: STDOUT: Missing expected files: ['pointcacheBgeoCache.0999.bgeo', 'pointcacheBgeoCache.1000.bgeo', 'pointcacheBgeoCache.1002.bgeo', 'pointcacheBgeoCache.1003.bgeo']
2024-07-31 18:21:16:  0: STDOUT: Expected files: ['pointcacheBgeoCache.0999.bgeo', 'pointcacheBgeoCache.1000.bgeo', 'pointcacheBgeoCache.1001.bgeo', 'pointcacheBgeoCache.1002.bgeo', 'pointcacheBgeoCache.1003.bgeo']

Expected Behavior:

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Version

1.0.0

What platform you are running on?

Windows

Steps To Reproduce:

1. publish abc (with .$F4 token in output path) or Bgeo to farm

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Relevant log output:

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Additional context:

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[SzabadosA]

looking at the manifest, it seems like the frame always gets set to 0 and the output dir/file does not get resolved:

[SzabadosA]

I just did some test.

• Bgeo does work without issues
• ABC breaks in deadline, but the manual fix is manually setting the frame range properly from 0 to the correct range
  = > will compare the code differences between bgeo and abc and come back to you

[SzabadosA]

ayon-deadline/client/ayon_deadline/plugins/publish/houdini/submit_houdini_cache_deadline.py

Line 80 in 67fce57

if rop_node.type().name() != "alembic":

This line of code seems to be the problem, if i disable the condition, the caches go through as expected. Do we know why that is in there? Maybe @iLLiCiTiT ?

[iLLiCiTiT]

I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with houdini, would be question for @BigRoy or @antirotor .

[SzabadosA]

Ah ok, I just tagged you because I saw your name in the code blame for this code

[BigRoy]

ayon-deadline/client/ayon_deadline/plugins/publish/houdini/submit_houdini_cache_deadline.py

Line 80 in 67fce57

if rop_node.type().name() != "alembic":

This line of code seems to be the problem, if i disable the condition, the caches go through as expected. Do we know why that is in there?

No idea - @MustafaJafar any idea why that might be there? If not, let's remove it - and then test the different cases.

[MustafaJafar]

I was checking #49
and this issue came to my mind.

No idea - @MustafaJafar any idea why that might be there? If not, let's remove it - and then test the different cases.

I think this most probably assumes that alembic is always generating a single file.
however, alembic nodes can generate file sequence if $F token was used.

So, we need a more accurate condition.

[BigRoy]

Something similarly broken came up on community forum here: https://community.ynput.io/t/error-houdini-deadline-cache-submission/1987/4?u=bigroy

Not sure if 1:1 the same thing.

[MustafaJafar]

Something similarly broken came up on community forum here: https://community.ynput.io/t/error-houdini-deadline-cache-submission/1987/4?u=bigroy

Not sure if 1:1 the same thing.

The log in that post comes from an older Houdini addon, more info check ynput/ayon-houdini@37a4e91