Deadline Cloud: Maya 2023 Installation

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Hi all, I just saw the new announcement of Deadline Cloud, and notice that during installation that only Maya 2024 option shows up. I was wondering if there was no current possibility to use it on Maya 2023? I'm currently on Maya Version 2023.3 and would love to utilize the features as an artist that is not very familiar with code/server setups :).

Thanks, Jordan

Jordan
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Hi Jordan. Currently, AWS Deadline Cloud supports Maya 2024 as an out-of-the-box plugin, but the Deadline Cloud GitHub repository has information on how to customize submitters in order to work with other content creation versions such as Maya 2023. You can use this link to find out more: https://github.com/aws-deadline/deadline-cloud-for-maya

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  • Hi! Thank you for your reply. Once I assemble it, can I use it with the same ease of use that Deadline Cloud for Maya 2024 was meant to offer?

    I'm not very familiar with reading github or following instructions on it to build it manually, so the link there, i still feel a bit lost. For context i'm mainly an artist trying to use Deadline for either my own products or for clients I work for, but without coding experience. I used it on productions at some points and it was nice being able to have Deadline automated tools and hit the Deadline plugin - submit and monitor the farm from the UI, as well as the automation tools it offered

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Hi Jordan,

There's 3 components to ensuring jobs can complete: 1/creating, 2/running, and 3/licensing. Creating has most to do with the plugin you would install into your Maya shelf. To help with running the job on hosts, Deadline Cloud makes Maya 2024 and other software packages available in service-managed fleets (SMF). SMF is the default, fully managed fleet type in the quickstart farm creation process. Maya 2023 packages for SMF (technically speaking, the packages will be available in the deadline-cloud conda channel) are work-in-progress. The Maya licenses available in usage based licensing (UBL) should work with both versions. For the fully automated workflow you describe, you just need to wait until the Maya 2023 conda packages for SMF are available.

In the meantime, customizing the Maya submitter will let you create jobs without leaving the Maya interface, just like you're used to. However to run Maya 2023 jobs on your fleets today, you would need to get the software to the host either by installing them into an image and creating a customer-managed fleet (CMF) or finding/creating a Maya 2023 conda package and using the queue environments settings in your queue details page to ensure the conda channel where that package is loaded when the task is run. However both these solutions require a bit of tinkering with python scripts and technical configurations. It's possible but likely more technical than you would prefer.

Thank you for taking to time to describe your ideal scenario, your feedback is really helpful!

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