Nuke to Deadline. A toolset for submitting nukescripts to Thinkbox Deadline.
The Nuke to Deadline toolset consists of 3 parts:
nk2dl pythonmodule for submitting nukescripts to Deadline from the python interpreter within Nuke or from any other python interpreter.nk2dl clifor submitting nukescripts to Deadline from the console.nk2dl guiis a panel for submitting the currently open nukescript. GUI features are still in a planning phase. The panel will likely also include nodes to support panel features.
- Installation, Configuration, and Tests
- Quickstart Usage Guide
- Configuration Details
- Deadline Connection
- Nuke Submission
- Nuke GUI
- Command Line Interface
- Feature parity table
- Follow the steps in the Installation, Configuration, and Tests doc to get
nk2dlup and running.
- The project is in alpha. We have been using it in a limited capacity in a production environment as a replacement to the Thinkbox submitter. We fall back to the Thinkbox submitter when missing a feature or something is broken.
- Graph Scope Variable functionality hasn't been tested in production.
- Interfaces to
nk2dl pythonmodule and command line are subject to change. - The
nk2dl clicommand line will often be out of step with the python module during development. The command line implementation may outright not work when out of step. - The project has only been tested under Windows 11. Linux will be tested at a later date. MacOS at an even later date.
- The project has no plans to implement the Deadline Draft, Eddy, Vray or Frameserver features from the Thinbox submitter.
- nk2dl pulls a Nuke render license if it needs to call on the Nuke python module outside of a Nuke interactive sesssion.
- Connection to Deadline Web Service currently doesn't support SSL.
- The roadmap sets out the path to overcome the caveats and implement planned features.
- The project is written using 10% supervision and 90% vibes.