Milan Kolar 33 Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Hi everyone.I'm currently in discussions about committing 2 separate tv show productions (52 and 13 episodes) to ftrack for the production tracking. 2 is most likely going to be done in nuke so that's a no brainer, however it looks like all 3d work will be done in Houdini. I can't say that we necessarily need a full on integration with all the little treats, however I'm wondering how much work would it be to implement at least a simple very basic integration. I should have time to contribute to the Coe during pre-production, potentially even write the whole thing, but coming from shotgun ecosystem I didn't have time to read through all the documentation on ftrack just yet. So the real question is. Is Houdini on the roadmap within reasonable timeframe? ( both productions will be starting in about 8-9 months time, but preparations are running now). And if not, can you estimate how much work would it take to built custom integration in house (I'm absolutely willing to contribute back if that was the case, provided we'd at least get som good guidance).Cheers Milan Link to post Share on other sites
jonathan-v 11 Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Hello Milan, We do all of our FX in Houdini and wanted to integrate ftrack as well. We used the Maya and Nuke plugins as a template but built a full Houdini integration from scratch. The whole toolset took about 3 days to build, couple of days of test dev and into production within a week. This includes an importer, asset manager, and custom pane that connects directly to the web interface. This dashboard allows users to quickly access information of an asset/task directly inside of Houdini. We found it to be more stable than the QT webview. In addition we made custom import nodes that were tagged manageable via the assetManager, and output rops to publish assets. We found no hangups/restrictions with the API, and actually feel setting applications up with ftrack is quite straight forward and painless. Not very helpful, but thought I would share our experience. JV Fredrik Limsater 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Milan Kolar 33 Posted March 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Thank you Jonathan, that is helpful indeed. I presume you had full time dev staff at your disposal, which probably won't be our case, So I'll have to get my hands dirty, but it at least,it gives me confidence that when I dig into API, it shouldn't take long to built it (famous last words, perhaps?). What caught my interest more though are the custom nodes. Any chance I could sometime pick your brain about those? Cheers Link to post Share on other sites
Mattias Seebergs 11 Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 Hi, > Is Houdini on the roadmap within reasonable timeframe? Houdini is on the roadmap but we do not have a timeframe yet. Should be this year but that may change depending on interest and maybe also how we can collaborate on the development. > can you estimate how much work would it take to built custom integration in house It should not be that difficult so you should have a simple integration up and running in quite a short time (as shared in previous reply, thanks Jonathan!). If you have any questions when developing with the API we are here to help you. Let me know if you have any further questions. Mike 1 Link to post Share on other sites
colorbleed 1 Posted March 9, 2016 Report Share Posted March 9, 2016 On 3/4/2014 at 8:07 PM, jonathan-v said: We do all of our FX in Houdini and wanted to integrate ftrack as well. We used the Maya and Nuke plugins as a template but built a full Houdini integration from scratch. The whole toolset took about 3 days to build, couple of days of test dev and into production within a week. This includes an importer, asset manager, and custom pane that connects directly to the web interface. This dashboard allows users to quickly access information of an asset/task directly inside of Houdini. We found it to be more stable than the QT webview. In addition we made custom import nodes that were tagged manageable via the assetManager, and output rops to publish assets. We found no hangups/restrictions with the API, and actually feel setting applications up with ftrack is quite straight forward and painless. That sounds very promising. I haven't had much luck cherry-picking the ftrack connect widgets and use it in my own custom GUIs and alike. Would you be able to provide some more insight into how your setup works? Link to post Share on other sites
Jason.Feng 0 Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 Hi guys, Any news on the Houdini integration? Our workflow is working with 3ds Max and Houdini. Link to post Share on other sites
Mattias Lagergren 145 Posted June 21, 2016 Report Share Posted June 21, 2016 3 hours ago, fancyvfx said: Hi guys, Any news on the Houdini integration? Our workflow is working with 3ds Max and Houdini. No news at the moment but we have it on our radar. We've created a public roadmap where you can vote up items that you're interested in. Here is a direct link to Houdini: https://trello.com/c/qFM5LLEN/29-houdini-integration Link to post Share on other sites
varomix 0 Posted September 8, 2016 Report Share Posted September 8, 2016 This is a must please add Houdini integration thank you Link to post Share on other sites
postmodern 6 Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 Hi guys, We use Ftrack in studio and love it, but our main package is Houdini. Now we use a very simple integration with Houdini software without assetManagment and I need a standard plugin integration as Maya and Nuke has. I'm not a professional programmer, but have some TD experience with main VFX programs. I start my own Houdini integration as branch of ftrack nuke and maya plugin. For now it has basic functionality and can publish and import limited data, but I'm working on it. Installing and developing simply the same as ftrack team maya and nuke open source packages. It open for everyone and if somebody want to help, please welcome! If Ftrack Team have some throats, or even working prototype, it will be cool to be a part. Repository: https://bitbucket.org/postmodern_dev/ftrack-connect-houdini Help: http://ftrack-connect-houdini.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ P.s. I hope, I don't violate any rights. Thanks! Mattias Lagergren and WangHuan 2 Link to post Share on other sites
lorenzo.angeli 7 Posted November 23, 2016 Report Share Posted November 23, 2016 Hi Thanks for this. code wise is looking good, a nice port of the ftrack's connector concept still having some issues due to qt/pyside, is it ok if I fork and have a look at potential fixes / improvements ? (in case you'll have to change the permission for forking in the project ) Cheers. L. Link to post Share on other sites
postmodern 6 Posted November 23, 2016 Report Share Posted November 23, 2016 Yes, sure! I'm changed permissions and you can create new fork! Link to post Share on other sites
lorenzo.angeli 7 Posted November 23, 2016 Report Share Posted November 23, 2016 Thanks man ! testing it now Link to post Share on other sites
Mattias Lagergren 145 Posted November 23, 2016 Report Share Posted November 23, 2016 Good stuff postmodern! Really exciting to see this! :-) We may contact you separately through email about the possibility to promote this integration. Again, excellent to see this and that you're willing to share it in the open! Link to post Share on other sites
Jason.Feng 0 Posted November 25, 2016 Report Share Posted November 25, 2016 C:\Program Files\ftrack-connect-package\common.zip\requests\packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py:318: SNIMissingWarning: An HTTPS request has been made, but the SNI (Subject Name Indication) extension to TLS is not available on this platform. This may cause the server to present an incorrect TLS certificate, which can cause validation failures. You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html#snimissingwarning. C:\Program Files\ftrack-connect-package\common.zip\requests\packages\urllib3\util\ssl_.py:122: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning. C:\Program Files\ftrack-connect-package\common.zip\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py:838: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html Error running pythonrc.py: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Program Files/ftrack-connect-package/resource/ftrack_connect_houdini/houdini_path/python2.7libs/pythonrc.py", line 56, in <module> setFrameRangeData() File "C:/Program Files/ftrack-connect-package/resource/ftrack_connect_houdini/houdini_path/python2.7libs/pythonrc.py", line 35, in setFrameRangeData handles = float(shot.get('handles')) File "C:\Program Files\ftrack-connect-package\common.zip\FTrackCore\api\ftobject.py", line 100, in get return self._getAttributeValue(key) File "C:\Program Files\ftrack-connect-package\common.zip\FTrackCore\api\ftobject.py", line 138, in _getAttributeValue raise FTrackError("Value ("+key+") not found on this object") FTrackError: Value (handles) not found on this object @ postmodern very thx! I have some issus, but I don't know how to solve it. Link to post Share on other sites
postmodern 6 Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 Hi fancyvfx! The solution still in development. Thanks for your feedback. I think it will be beta version in coupe weeks. Anyway your error is because you don't have handles field(additional frames on start and end) on your shot. I fixed it, and now it's must working. Try download source code again and reinstall. Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites
Jason.Feng 0 Posted December 3, 2016 Report Share Posted December 3, 2016 On 2016/11/27 at 7:20 AM, postmodern said: Hi fancyvfx! The solution still in development. Thanks for your feedback. I think it will be beta version in coupe weeks. Anyway your error is because you don't have handles field(additional frames on start and end) on your shot. I fixed it, and now it's must working. Try download source code again and reinstall. Cheers! thx! Link to post Share on other sites
postmodern 6 Posted December 6, 2016 Report Share Posted December 6, 2016 Hello, All! I finished Base ftrack-connect-houdini plugin functions. Now Houdini can work with Scene, Geometry, Camera Assets (Publish, Import, Management). Feedback it please! Repository: https://bitbucket.org/postmodern_dev/ftrack-connect-houdini Help: http://ftrack-connect-houdini.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Release Notes: http://ftrack-connect-houdini.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release/release_notes.html Video: https://vimeo.com/194510458 Thanks! Mattias Lagergren and tokejepsen 2 Link to post Share on other sites
tokejepsen 55 Posted December 6, 2016 Report Share Posted December 6, 2016 Amazing stuff @postmodern! Will give it a test soon. Link to post Share on other sites
WangHuan 0 Posted December 16, 2016 Report Share Posted December 16, 2016 So Cool! @postmodern Will give it a test soon. And wish to add HDA function(Publish, Import, Management). Link to post Share on other sites
postmodern 6 Posted December 17, 2016 Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 Hi, WangHuan! HDA support is in my roadmap, thanks for interesting. WangHuan 1 Link to post Share on other sites
WangHuan 0 Posted December 27, 2016 Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 Hi postmodern, Glad to hear that,looking forward to hearing the good news! Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites
iwootten 0 Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 Hey - so postmodern's project no longer appears to be available on bitbucket. Is there any movement on ftrack planning on releasing an official houdini integration? It's the most upvoted idea on your roadmap and has been what - 3 and a half years now? Link to post Share on other sites
lorenzo.angeli 7 Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 Hi guys, being a code hoarder as I am, I've been forking the project: https://bitbucket.org/efestolab/ftrack-connect-houdini Note, for what I've seen this project requires some love, and might be breaking. If you do fix stuff, please open PR and I'll be happy to review and merge them. Cheers. L. P.s the original project seems still accessible at : https://bitbucket.org/mikedatsik_dev/ftrack-connect-houdini Link to post Share on other sites
iwootten 0 Posted October 18, 2017 Report Share Posted October 18, 2017 Ah, that's great - thanks lorenzo. Is there any reason not to contribute back to the original developers project? Link to post Share on other sites
postmodern 6 Posted October 23, 2017 Report Share Posted October 23, 2017 Hi guys! The project is not dead! The last half of the year there was a overloaded at work and there was no time for project. But I plan to continue, so I'm ready for any help. Link to post Share on other sites
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