Feature request: SideFX Labs Conda Package

[Ahuge]

Describe the problem

Hi we require some of the nodes from SideFX Labs and it doesn't appear that there is an official Deadline Cloud Conda package for it.

Proposed Solution

Would love to see a Conda package for SideFX Labs, in the interim I will work on a custom SideFX Labs Conda package and see where I get to.

Example Use Cases

Using SideFX Labs locally grants access to additional nodes and features that would be useful to have on render nodes as well

[mwiebe]

Thanks for the feature request. We recently updated our documentation with some topics that may help you create a custom package recipe. They describe the factors to consider when packaging an application and plugins, with Maya as the worked example:

• Create a conda channel using S3
• Create a conda build recipe for Autodesk Maya
• Create a conda build recipe for Autodesk Maya to Arnold (MtoA) plugin

[lucaseck]

There is now a Houdini 20.5 sample Conda recipe in the deadline-cloud-samples repository. For anyone currently trying to use SideFX labs you can build your own package following the instructions in that repository. The only change needed to include SideFX Labs into the package is to add --install-sidefxlabs \ to the recipe below here.