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Install and configure software required for jobs - Deadline Cloud
Install DCC adaptors

Install and configure software required for jobs

After you set up the Deadline Cloud worker agent, you can prepare the worker host with any software that is required to run jobs.

When you submit a job to a queue with an associated jobRunAsUser, the job runs as that user. When a job is submitted with commands that are not an absolute path, that command must be found in the PATH of that user.

On Linux, you might specify the PATH for a user in one of the following:

  • their ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile

  • system configuration files such as /etc/profile.d/* and /etc/profile

  • shell startup scripts: /etc/bashrc.

On Windows, you might specify the PATH for a user in one of the following:

  • their user-specific environment variables

  • the system-wide environment variables

Install digital content creation tool adaptors

Deadline Cloud provides OpenJobDescription adaptors for using popular digital content creation (DCC) applications. To use these adaptors in a customer-managed fleet, you must install the DCC software and the application adaptors. Then, ensure the software's executable programs are available on the system search path (for example, in the PATH environment variable).

To install a digital content creation (DCC) adaptor on a customer-managed fleet

  1. Open a terminal:

    1. On Linux, open a terminal as the root user (or use sudo or su).

    2. On Windows, open an administrator command prompt or PowerShell terminal.

  2. Install the adaptor package for your DCC application. The following example installs the Maya adaptor:

    pip install deadline-cloud-for-maya

    The following table lists the adaptor package name and documentation link for each supported DCC application:

    DCC application Adaptor package
    Adobe After Effects deadline-cloud-for-after-effects on GitHub
    Autodesk 3ds Max deadline-cloud-for-3ds-max on GitHub
    Autodesk Maya deadline-cloud-for-maya on GitHub
    Autodesk VRED deadline-cloud-for-vred on GitHub
    Blender deadline-cloud-for-blender on GitHub
    Chaos V-Ray for Maya deadline-cloud-for-maya on GitHub
    Foundry Nuke deadline-cloud-for-nuke on GitHub
    KeyShot Studio deadline-cloud-for-keyshot on GitHub
    Maxon Cinema 4D deadline-cloud-for-cinema-4d on GitHub
    Maxon Redshift for Maya deadline-cloud-for-maya on GitHub
    SideFX Houdini deadline-cloud-for-houdini on GitHub
    Unreal Engine deadline-cloud-for-unreal-engine on GitHub
Installing multiple adaptors on the same worker

If you install more than one DCC adaptor on the same worker, install each adaptor into its own Python virtual environment. Adaptors can pin different version ranges for shared Python packages (for example, deadline or openjd-adaptor-runtime). An environment with multiple adaptors might fail with a ResolutionImpossible error. It might also silently downgrade a shared package and break the adaptors that need the newer version.