Maya Asset Browser

[mottosso]

We'll need a way to get assets into Maya without fuzz.

Responsibilities

It should handle:

• Listing assets of the current project, e.g. thedeal/assets/*.*

• Importing as referencing the selected asset

• Append namespace to imported asset, e.g. ben_

• Apply environment variables to absolute path, e.g. $PROJECTROOT/assets/...

• Add data to reference node, for lazy referencing.

  project: "hulk"
  asset: "bruce"
  task: "animRig"
  family: "rig"
  instance: "bruce"
  version: "v032"

Graphics

Visually it needn't be much more complicated than..

 _____________________
|_____________________|
| ben                 |
| - model             |
| - rig               |
| jerry               |
| - model             |
| - rig               |
| chair               |
| - model             |
| - rig               |
| table               |
| - model             |
| - rig               |
|_____________________|
|               Load  |
|_____________________|

It's mostly about functionality at this point.

[BigRoy]

So what would be the expected items in the list.

It seems you're listing them as item/family?
How do we decide which tasks/families get listed?

For example this would be with the Task in between:

 _____________________
|_____________________|
| ben                 |
| - modeling          |
|       - model       |
| - rigging           |
|       - rig         |
|_____________________|
|               Load  |
|_____________________|

[mottosso]

I'd skip the task, I don't think it's relevant when browsing.

About which to list, I'd list anything with a /publish sub-directory, until we can figure out how to exclude certain items that can't get imported into Maya for example.

Otherwise it looks good, each asset, along with each importable result of a task.

What do you think?