I think the issue belongs to ayon-deadline.

could be, but pls note that there were quite a few changes in this area recently (in blender) too

namely this one:

#82

Please confirm whether you're using latest ayon-deadline.

yes, its been experienced with ayon-deadline 0.5.1

Great - can you provide a publish .json report from the submissions? :)

Yes, here you have it...note just version is upped by one from v024 to v025 as I had to re-run the publishing for the JSON report otherwise the same scene for sure...

B3D_publish-report-250109-16-57.json.txt

So the issue I think is that the renderlayerMain splits into two separate instances renderLightingMainFrnt and renderLightingMainBg - however, most likely the creator attributes and publish attributes aren't "transferred" from the original instance to the new instances - as such, they do not have the "attribute values" from the publisher UI.

There's definitely a bug there. :)

I just can't quickly find where that splitting happens.

I think @moonyuet will be able to locate the issue most easily as she was in charge of that PR regarding rendering (mentioned above)

or at least I hope so...reading Roys comment aka his findings, correct me if Im wrong or just nevermind in such occasion

I think @moonyuet will be able to locate the issue most easily as she was in charge of that PR regarding rendering (mentioned above)

or at least I hope so...reading Roys comment aka his findings, correct me if Im wrong or just nevermind in such occasion

Roy is actually correct for his findings. It is being some of the instance data is not copied to the new instance(s). We need to fix it by copying those data back to the new instance(s)