Hi. It seems deadline will no longer be updated as of next month.

Our vfx degree will have you find something else.

We use houdini and pdg tops, Nuke and unreal.

Does anyone have recommendations. Best. Mark

You almost gave me a heart attack. If I may share the context for others: as I just learned, Deadline is entering maintenance mode [docs.thinkboxsoftware.com], which means it will not implement new features, but it will receive critial fixes and support. Farms will be able to work as usual for years going forward, from what I understand.

TBH, we never rely on Deadlines's new features. And their submitters are often forgotten and unmaintained to begin with. We're able to program our own features and plugins, so I think we're going to stick with Deadline. Their recommendation to transition to the cloud is suspicious, I'll admit.

their recommendation to transition to cloud is their business model. selling AWS compute time is where those sweet sweet bezos dollars are. the old local compute deadline just a loss leader to transition into selling you your infrastructure by the billable second.

in the meantime, long live the old deadline, it's awesome and you can always roll your own plugins.

cheers,
chrisg

I have just re-installed deadline on my machine and i'm having trouble getting it to see houdini21
I have edited the D:\DeadlineRepository10\plugins\Houdini\houdini.param to add houdini21 to the list but it's not finding it
I get this error:

Error: Deadline was unable to find the plugin configuration option 'Houdini21_0_Hython_Executable' for the selected version of Houdini 21_0.


I did the same thing for nuke and it worked fine. Is there something I need to change/add?

jlazzis
I did the same thing for nuke and it worked fine. Is there something I need to change/add?

Did you make sure to also increment the index in the .param file? That's something you can easily forget.

found the culprit. I had a typo in the path