Shot inventories and automatic scene build

General
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Thanks for the thoughts.

How does ayon/OP handle shot inventories? Can you set the context and step/department and one click pull all the latest of everything into your shot?

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It is indeed possible, but it requires some key information to be present.

  • Links between entities must be created. Some of these are done automatically during publishing, but some (like linking a character to a shot), must be done manually by someone first.
  • You need to either fill out workfile build settings of your DCC (not all are fully supported), which can then simply pull required versions into a scene, or setup a templated workfile build which needs a template file and correct settings. Both approaches can then be used to build new workfiles.
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Thanks. The way we do this currently is the initial inventory is set by animators as you aren’t allowed to export animation for a character that isn’t in the context inventory. So a way to push this from maya as part of a publish check would fit with how we do it. Ow.

And we’re planning on going 100% Solaris in the future so either a template scene or some simple rules would work. Probably publish the work as hda subnets for lighting / render setups. We would have to have a context aware inventory aware shot builder to compose the lastest shot.usd for everything up to the lighting work.

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Hi there, we are also interested to see what kind of tooling OP/ayon provides regarding scene breakdown, i.e. assigning what assets belong to what shots, and automatic scene builds given these assignments, particularly in the context of Maya.

@milan can you elaborate on how links are created between entities manually?

I see there is promising-looking information in Workfile Build Settings for the DCC, but I haven’t found documentation on how to understand the context and the linked assets tabs in case that’s something you can direct me to as well