Ideally what I would like to produce is a tight integration of an asset management solution into the Maya interface.
As you suggested it would probably be worthwhile to develop the asset management side in a form that is independent of Maya and then write a Maya plugin that makes use of the asset management code. I am now considering developing the asset management side to support more than just SVN, at this stage looking at CVS, SVN, git but the system design would allow for integration of any version control system that one wants to write a module for. So far my asset management experience includes using CVS & SVN on code projects and trying to use SVN on Maya projects. Zac On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Sebastian Thiel <[email protected]>wrote: > This whole asset management part sounds like a general pipeline approach, > with svn as data storage and perhaps database ( ->properties ). > > Doing that would properly would make many people, including myself, quite > happy as this is one major backbone of any pipeline. > > Not being too familiar with Maya is probably won't be too much of a problem > as you can boil the system down to actually know about maya in the end, by > plugging it into your framework. > > Thus whenever one says asset management, I do not see maya in the first > place, but files and how they are organized. This is useful for many other > applications as well, that could play together with your asset management > system. > > Perhaps I am over-generalizing making things more complicated than they > actually are, and its absolutely fine to start 'sane' and focus on one > application at first to gain first experiences with asset management. > > Lets see how it goes for you - in my head it looks like a large project > requiring a good foundation. > > > Zac Shenker wrote: > > At this stage the main focus is to provide a solution for the end users, > but in saying that where possible I am building Python Classes that provide > alot of useful functionality so it certainly could be useful for developers > as well. > > Personally I have quite alot of experience with Python and SVN but am new > to programming for Maya. > > I would like to ultimately include features that improve the pipeline and > workflow processes, such as: > Going through the Maya scene files and discover file textures that are no > longer being used. > Provide Version Control over all assests in the project > Easy to use management of revisions and file locks > Easy to use support for branching. > Possibly some basic support for automated merging and conflict resolution. > > Regards, > Zac > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Sebastian Thiel > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Who will be your target audience ? Will it be programmers that want to use >> your integration in their environments, or will it be users that just need >> nice user interfaces ? >> >> Can you target both ? >> >> From my perspective, pysvn already did the job for me. It does not come >> with any user interfaces, but for pipeline work, these can be very very >> simple. >> >> Something I had to improve though is the pysvn client to be a little >> easier to use when trying to check-out or update files in a deep directory >> structure which does not yet exist locally. If your project, in addition to >> that, would provide a nice modular user interface, it could workout well. >> >> Hradec wrote: >> >> Sounds really intersting man... I have being thinking about the potential >> of using svn in maya for a sort of asset management system for quite some >> time, which is a concept that your project could be used for I think... >> >> I would be really interested in discuss more about the subject, and maybe >> even contribute to your project... >> >> congrats for the effort and initiative... >> >> -H >> >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Zac Shenker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Farsheed, >>> >>> Thanks for the comments. This project is still very much a work in >>> progress, it still has a number of hardcoded variables and is missing a >>> reasonable amount of the interface integration. >>> >>> If there is any one out there interested in this project I would be happy >>> to discuss design and goals of the project a bit further before coding much >>> further. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Zac >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Farsheed Ashouri >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Nice work, Thank you. >>>> Sincerely, >>>> Farsheed. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yours, Maya-Python Club Team. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
