ftrack connect 3 in maya

[laura]

Hi, 

I am looking into integrating ftrack connect 3 in our pipeline and so far I'm having some issues/questions:

• Is there any replacement for Maya Import Asset and  Asset Manager?  Since there is only "Open" plugin available, how can we create a scene with multiple assets and, afterwards, change versions of those assets ?

 

• It seems that the environment variables are ovwerwritten/removed in maya...
  • For eg. I need to register a custom location, so I have defined the FTRACK_EVENT_PLUGIN_PATH in ftrack connect 

                    "FTRACK_EVENT_PLUGIN_PATH": "\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ftrack Connect\\resource\\hook\"",

    In maya this env var is not defined, so the location is not registered: 

    import os
    print (os.getenv("FTRACK_EVENT_PLUGIN_PATH"))
    None

     If I define it maya and intialize a session , the location is registered. 

    os.environ["FTRACK_EVENT_PLUGIN_PATH"]="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ftrack Connect\\resource\\hook"
    
    import ftrack_api
    session = ftrack_api.Session()
    
    INFO - MainThread - 2024-10-03 08:40:20,145 - ftrack_api._centralized_storage_scenario.ActivateCentralizedStorageScenario - Storage scenario activated. Configured <dynamic ftrack Location object 2663819379464> from {'data': {'location_name': 'skylite.main', 'location_id': '8e26387c-6e7a-11ed-a0fd-b638f13de3f0', 'accessor': {'mount_points': {'windows': '', 'osx': '', 'linux': ''}}}, 'scenario': 'ftrack.centralized-storage'}
    defining accessor for  skylite.main at .
    accessor  <ftrack_api.accessor.disk.DiskAccessor object at 0x0000026C3801CE48>.
    initiliaze Skylite structure - prio 30
    initiliaze skltStructure - prio 30 -  prefix None
    Registered location skylite.main at .

     

Thanks!

[cdp]

+1

I also noticed there is no asset manager in the new framework integrations(v3). It's an important part of data workflow and publish/open menu has no meaning if we can't track data which has been imported from ftrack in the scene. I'm wondering if there's any plan for asset manager in the future?

I'm taking a look into Connect 24.11 and the same version of new integrations. Thanks.