Installing The Sequoia Plugin For Deadline¶

Overview¶

SEQUOIA ships with a dedicated plugin for Thinkbox Software’s DEADLINE network compute management solution.
It allows point file format conversion, point cloud meshing and Hacksaw distributed meshing to be processed on network or cloud machines
SEQUOIA will run in so-called “headless” mode (a.k.a. command-line mode) without launcing the User Interface.
When in this mode, SEQUOIA will require a Network Processing license instead of a full Workstation license.
Note that DEADLINE offers a two-node license-free mode at no cost.

Currently, you must manually copy the SEQUOIA plugin folder into the DEADLINE Repository.

To install the SEQUOIA plugin for Deadline:

Go to the folder where SEQUOIA was installed.
- On Windows, the default installation folder is “C:\Program Files\Thinkbox\Sequoia\”
- On Mac OSX, the default installation folder is “/Applications/Thinkbox/Sequoia/”
- On Linux, the default installation folder is “/opt/Thinkbox/Sequoia/”
Locate the sub-folder “deadline” and go in - you will find a sub-folder called “plugins”.
Copy the “plugins” folder.
Navigate to the location of your Deadline Repository.
Paste the “plugins” folder into the Deadline Repository root.
Confirm that you want to copy “plugins” into “plugins” and overwrite if any sub-folders exist.

If you installed SEQUOIA in the default directory on your network nodes, you are done - the plugin is pre-set to look for the executable at the default location.
Otherwise, you will need to set up the SEQUOIA executable path.

Open the Deadline Monitor application.
Go to Tools menu and enable Super User Mode.
Go to Tools and select the menu item Configure Plugins.
Select “Sequoia” from the list of plugins on the left side.
Add the SEQUOIA executable’s actual path to the list of Sequoia Executables.
- If different render nodes have SEQUOIA installed at different paths, add all of them.
Close the “Configure Plugins” dialog by pressing OK.