UE/P4/DL Farm

[tweak-wtf]

Changelog Description

A suggestion for deadline farm rendering.
Depends on:

• UE/P4/DL Farm ayon-perforce#20
• UE/P4/DL Farm ayon-deadline#247

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• adds remote_rendering.py
  • executed as post init script if run as deadline job
  • copies MRQ manifest from work drive to local perforce workspaces Saved/MovieRenderPipeline
• adds support for submitting multiple LevelSequences per publish
• adds collector for any found unreal.MoviePipelinePrimaryConfig in the current ue project
• implements MRQ auto handling
  • if the renderQueue asset specified in server settings isn't found the current MRQ singleton is used to automatically add jobs depending on publish instances of type render
• adds collect_render_files_farm collector:
  • only runs if MRQ is auto handled
  • will override the expectedFiles key and auto-configures the jobs output settings to match provided work template
    • this ensures the deadline publish job will integrate the right files
• checks whether jobs in MRQ have unsaved changes
  • prompts user to save if any unsaved changes have been found
• extracts MRQ to be rendered as manifest file used for remote rendering

Testing notes:

Please make sure to also take a look at the testing notes in the linked PRs

1. define a new work template called unreal. it's being used for unreals rendering output
2. install pywin32 to ue's python interpreter
   • PS C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.7\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\Python3\Win64> .\python.exe -m pip install pywin32
3. launch unreal from a task type that's configured perforce addon
   • ayon+settings://perforce/stream/profiles/0/task_types
   • the task name must correspond to an existing perforce stream
4. ensure UE is connected to perforce (bottom right of UE's UI)
5. ensure an existing media render preset in /Ayon
6. create a new render type publish item
   • select the LevelSequence to render in UE
   • select the AYON hierarchy u want to render to
7. publish 🤞

ToDo:

• beautify render process and maybe communicate to deadline job
  • set job name, which frame is rendering atm, etc
• support rendering any LevelSequence in any hierarchy