AYON monthly beginner’s topic - January‘24

[mustafa_jafar]

Happy New Year !

Welcome to our Monthly beginner’s thread. This forum topic is used to capture all beginner questions (and answers) in one place. We start a new one every month on 1st of the month and lock the previous one.

We if you feel your question deserves it’s own topic in one of the existing categories, then by all means go for it and create on. We’ll also try our best to split out any interesting questions to their own topics when they warrant a bigger conversations.

So go ahead and ask to your heart’s content.

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Questions Summary:

How to check my Ayon version ?

There are many ways to check your Ayon version.

From Server	From Terminal

From Terminal: I’ve used this command

cd {ayon-docker-repo}
sudo docker compose exec server cat RELEASE

How to use the photoshop addon ?

Firstly, Add photoshop to your project as mentioned here

AYON monthly beginner’s topic - January‘24

The solution is Photoshop needs to be launched through the Ayon launcher. The Ayon launcher was not yet showing any applications, because I had yet to set the “Applications” attribute under Anatomy. Add Photoshop as an application under the project anatomy attributes. [image] Open the Ayon Launcher, select a task and launch it in Photoshop. [image] Launch the tool you need from the Ayon photoshop plugin [image]

Then, install the zxp package as mentioned in docs

Photoshop Artist Docs | AYON Docs

Also, Here’s a good tip from @BigRoy

AYON monthly beginner’s topic - January‘24

The solution is Photoshop needs to be launched through the Ayon launcher For what it’s worth - it’s good to note that all applications only have the integrations active when launched via the launcher. This is not Photoshop-specific but also goes for Maya, Houdini, Fusion, Nuke, After Effects, Resolve, Blender, etc. Ayon does not install itself into your local installs of the applications (you can run them fine outside of Ayon without the Ayon tools). But instead only loads up the relevant bi…

Then, you can start using photoshop through Ayon
Here’s a quick demo knowing the fact I don’t use it on a daily basis but those are my 2 cents anyways

Questions related to unimplemented features:

Ayon is evolving and due to our Agile methodology, some features may not be there yet.
I’m move these questions here in this section for reference.

Is there any integration with pureref that people know of???

No, Not yet.
Currently, you can add pureref to applications.

https://community.ynput.io/t/ayon-monthly-beginner-s-topic-january-24/1134/7

Does Ayon respect/use the interchange pipeline settings ?

Unfortunately, not yet.