DeadlineUtil interface, SMTD and MAXScript exposure

Deadline
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Hi there,

I’m writing my own Deadline Submitter for Max, however, I’ve been trying to dissect the SMTD scritps etc… with not much luck.

What I’m basically after is a way to query some information from Deadline from within MAXScript. Sure I can do that with the deadlinecommand, but I thought that the Lightning plugin exposed some of the methods for querying, for example, pools, active jobs for dependencies etc…? Is that correct?

Is there any documentation for the DeadlineUtil interface or anything else Lightning related?

Thanks a lot in advance, cheers,

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Hey Lukas,

The Lightning plugin isn’t designed to be used by SMTD (or any submitter for that matter). It’s just meant to facilitate the communication between Deadline’s 3dsmax plugin and 3dsmax itself. It doesn’t know how to get pools, groups, jobs, etc. Using the command line to get this information is still the recommended approach.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Ah, ok then in that case. No problem at all. Thanks again for the info. :wink: