Any way to use the “Kill ADSK Comms Center Process” option when I use the 3dsCmd Plugin for Deadline?
(see attached screenshot)

I think that’s just for the standard Max plugin at the moment. It’s in the “Render Options” section:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produ … figuration

I did a quick check through the “cmd” flavour and it’s not there yet.

I guess short-term solutions would be to find a tool that kills arbitrary processes (I use taskkill which is built into Windows) or find a way to use the standard plugin.

Here’s the code that handles that in the main plugin:

        # Check if ADSK WSCommCntr process is running and kill it if necessary.
        if( self.KillWsCommCntrProcesses ):
            processName = "WSCommCntr"
            if ProcessUtils.KillProcesses( processName ):
                self.Plugin.LogInfo( "Killed ADSK Communication Center process via Python: " + processName )

            for i in range(1, 10):
                tempProcessName = processName + str(i)
                if ProcessUtils.KillProcesses( tempProcessName ):
                    self.Plugin.LogInfo( "Killed ADSK Communication Center process via Python: " + tempProcessName )