ID 599802 - Nuke crashes when opening scripts containing Deep and ModifyMetadata nodes, and Top-Down Rendering is enabled

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Problem summary
Nuke crashes when opening scripts containing Deep and ModifyMetadata nodes, and Top-Down Rendering is enabled.
 
Customer reported version
Nuke 14.1v7
 
Customer reported platform
Rocky 8
 
Steps to reproduce
 
1) Open Nuke.
 
2) Create a CheckerBoard node.
 
3) Then create a DeepFromImage node downstream from the CheckerBoard.
 
4) Then create a ModifyMetadata node and connect it to a Viewer.
 
5) Save the script and close Nuke.
 
6) Open Nuke with the following command:
/usr/local/Nuke16.0v2/Nuke16.0 --topdown /path/to/script.nk
 
Or for macOS:
/Applications/Nuke16.0v2/Nuke16.0v2.app/Contents/MacOS/Nuke16.0 --topdown /path/to/script.nk
 
Expected behaviour
Nuke should not crash.
 
Actual behaviour
Nuke crashes after opening the script, when Top-Down Rendering is enabled.
 
Workaround
Unknown. 
 
Reproduced by support
This bug has been reproduced in:
Nuke 16.0v2 - Linux Rocky 9 - macOS 15 (Sequoia) 
Nuke 13.2v1 - Linux CentOS 7 - macOS 15 (Sequoia) 
 
Unable to reproduce bug in:
Nuke 16.0v2 - Windows 11
 
Earliest version tested
Nuke 13.2v1
- Top-Down Rendering did not existing before this version.
 

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