Deadline Cloud: Maya 2023 Installation

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

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!