25th March 2026, 3ds Max 2027 release, is it possible to get an update for the lightning plugin to be able to use this with Deadline?
https://manage.autodesk.com/products/3DSMAX?version=2027&platform=WIN64&language=EINT
Support this oneā¦like every year 
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One month since release, please guysā¦ only thing stopping me from jumping into 2027 its deadline support. Cheers
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About the same, i wish AD compil lightening for AWS deadline desktop wich each releaseā¦so we will not have to waitā¦ 
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Yes, please.
We need this too.
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Yes please! No deadline = canāt implement 2027
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Yep, this is a central part of many mission critical pipelines!
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Yes please, Iām waiting for it too.
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Same. But I was interested whether Deadline Cloud would be an option - that seems to be where they want us to move over to (esp when they endof life D10). It seems the cloud version can be used in the same way for your local render farm (although there will be more network traffic of files going up and down). Im pretty sure they will have 3ds max 2027 working there already.
It could even be that the file that we need for D10 is already being used, and just needs to be shared, no idea!
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Cloud doesnāt have 2027 support
Autodesk 3ds Max - AWS Deadline Cloud
It also has a bunch of caveats in setup where you need to create conda packages for any plugins etc.
On prem is charged $0.015 per hour ($131.40 for a year) whether itās rendering or idle, this charge is there per machine.
If you look on the cloud github it doesnāt look like theyāre using the lightning plugin in favour of their OpenJobDescription plugin
You canāt just copy and rename the folder C:\DeadlineRepository10\maxStartup\2026
because the .dlx file needs to be recompiled by Thinkbox
I donāt think you can reverse engineer it either. Aside from breaking the EULA, it doesnāt contain the info to do this. So weāre stuck waiting for Thinkbox
Got it. I hadnt looked in great detail, and did wonder about the costs ongoing to replace something we have for free currently.
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Please gimme the lightening plugin!
To be clear, this situation is qunique to Max because Deadline doesnāt have any special plugin for any other DCCs. All Deadline plugins temselves use only Python. Max was the main DCC for Fractic hence Max always have had richer feature than other DCCs. Now it is kinda back firingā¦
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Dear Amazon Thinkbox,
Yes, please add 3ds Max 2027 support.
Better yet, make Deadline and/or the Lightning.dlx open source so we can avoid delays in the future.
Many pipelines depend on this wonderful technology. It would be a great PR move to give it to the community.
Thank-you!
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Hi there,
I have also written a similar version of this plugin myself, but it currently does not support UseSlaveMode.
Could you please provide us with some official technical guidance? We would like to know how the official -slave mode (launched by running 3dsmax.exe -s) is implemented internally.
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much!
meanwhile Max users still wait for 2027 supportā¦
3ds Max 2027 Update 1 is now available
3ds Max 2027 Help | 3ds Max 2027.1 Release Notes | Autodesk
Arnold is supported of course!
V-Ray has 2027 support from 7.3
7.30.02 - V-Ray for 3ds Max - Chaos Docs
Corona 14 supports 2027
Chaos Corona ā Whatās New
Redshift has 2027 support too
Redshift ā Knowledge Base
That should give a few options with either using 3dsCommand or export to standalone render.
The 3ds 2026 Deadline plugin release was out in a month last year, but the 3ds 2025 deadline plugin release in 2024 took 6 months!
Iām not sure who is still working on Deadline
āIām not sure who is still working on Deadlineā
Me
In fact all those requesting for support in this thread, and all studio on FB Stack Groupā¦
I mean āworking onā as developers, not using the software itself.
I think most of the remaining team have been shuffled over to deadlinecloud
looking at GitHub - aws-deadline/deadline-cloud-for-3ds-max: AWS Deadline Cloud for 3ds Max Ā· GitHub VRay 5 support was just added
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