maya 'ValidateRenderSettings' can handle AYON settings

client/ayon_core/hosts/maya/plugins/publish/validate_rendersettings.py

@@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ class ValidateRenderSettings(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
         # if so, compare its value from the one required.
         for data in cls.get_nodes(instance, renderer):
             for node in data["nodes"]:
+                # Why is captured 'PublishValidationError'? How it can be
+                #   raised by 'cmds.getAttr(...)'?
                 try:
                     render_value = cmds.getAttr(
                         "{}.{}".format(node, data["attribute"])
@@ -310,11 +312,16 @@ class ValidateRenderSettings(pyblish.api.InstancePlugin):
     @classmethod
     def get_nodes(cls, instance, renderer):
         maya_settings = instance.context.data["project_settings"]["maya"]
+        renderer_key = "{}_render_attributes".format(renderer)
         validation_settings = (
             maya_settings["publish"]["ValidateRenderSettings"].get(
-                "{}_render_attributes".format(renderer)
-            ) or []
-        )
+                renderer_key
+            )
+        ) or []
+        validation_settings = [
+            (item["type"], item["value"])
+            for item in validation_settings
+        ]
         result = []
         for attr, values in OrderedDict(validation_settings).items():
             values = [convert_to_int_or_float(v) for v in values if v]

client/ayon_core/settings/ayon_settings.py

@@ -336,21 +336,6 @@ def _convert_maya_project_settings(ayon_settings, output):
     # --- Publish (START) ---
     ayon_publish = ayon_maya["publish"]
 
-    # Extract playblast capture settings
-    validate_rendern_settings = ayon_publish["ValidateRenderSettings"]
-    for key in (
-        "arnold_render_attributes",
-        "vray_render_attributes",
-        "redshift_render_attributes",
-        "renderman_render_attributes",
-    ):
-        if key not in validate_rendern_settings:
-            continue
-        validate_rendern_settings[key] = [
-            [item["type"], item["value"]]
-            for item in validate_rendern_settings[key]
-        ]
-
     plugin_path_attributes = ayon_publish["ValidatePluginPathAttributes"]
     plugin_path_attributes["attribute"] = {
         item["name"]: item["value"]