Using folder tokens in Nuke Studio Publish to ftrack

[Brad Falk]

Hello Everyone,

I am publishing from nuke studio to create and update sequences and shots in Ftrack. Our studio is using ftrack folders and subfolders and nesting sequences and shots within those. I have not found the method for doing this when I publish out of nuke studio. Does anyone have an example or can point me to document that can help? Im attaching image for clarity

[Lorenzo Angeli]

Hi @Brad Falk following up here from the internal ticket as the solution might be interesting to others.

If you want to customise the nuke studio output folder, the best option is to provide a custom template which include the entity you are missing (the folder in this case).
An example template could be (please note the first {_:(FD|fd)}{Folder:\w+} which resolves the folders)

        {

            'name': 'Custom with folders',

            'description': (

                'Match and output desired structures with folders'

                'Example: FDSOME_SQ001_SH010 will be matched as Folder with Name SOME , Sequence with name '

                '001 and a Shot named 010.'

            ),

            'expression': '{_:(FD|fd)}{Folder:\w+}{_:.+(SQ|sq)}{Sequence:\w+}{_:.+(SH|sh)}{Shot:\w+}'

        }      

The best way to test if the template is correct is to simply check with the underlying template engine with the following code: 
 

import lucidity

 

string = 'FDNAME_SQ001_SH411'

template = '{_:(FD|fd)}{Folder:\w+}{_:.+(SQ|sq)}{Sequence:\w+}{_:.+(SH|sh)}{Shot:\w+}'

luc_tmpl = lucidity.template.Template('Custom with folders', template, anchor=None)

print(luc_tmpl.parse(string))

Once the template is added to the nuke studio context_template_hook.py 
(note, in the installed plugin will be available under : C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\ftrack\ftrack-connect-plugins\ftrack-connect-nuke-studio-2.5.1\application_hook)

Just restart Nuke Studio, and at export time, select the new custom template and continue the export as usual.

The result structure should be similar to the image attached.


Hope it helps.
L.



 

 

[Brad Falk]

thanks very much for this!