We’re migrating to a USD pipeline, but with deadline we still don’t have ways to render our scenes in USD format, since we primarly use arnold renderer and with arnold we can pretty much kick render a USD file same way we did with a .ASS file, only difference is a USD file contains sequence data too, so no more need for a file per frame, it would be nice to support that in the Arnold Job submitter.
Side note, while doing lookdev in maya we can just submit an arnold export job even if we’re working with USD, and deadline would create a quick temporary .ass file which wouldn’t be big, since it still references the main USD file. However in houdini we weren’t able to achieve that, for some reason even after checking the two options :
We still get a houdini job in the monitor, which is not desirable. Maybe someone could help me with achieving this for now while USD isn’t yet supported by deadline plugins.