Maya open latest scene

As our first task, we implement an automatic scene open in Maya upon launch. It will check if there is a previous snapshot published on the task, if not it tries to locate a template scene, based on the task, to load and start from.

Prerequisites

  1. A shot created in ftrack, with proper timeline and fps set.

  2. The previous custom location plugin deployed, and configured storage scenario set up (preferable).

  3. A Maya template scene to use when no previous published snapshot file exists, present in project folder @ _TEMPLATES/maya/<task type>_template.mb

Implementation

All DCC tools goes into the file custom_commands.py:

mypipeline/ftrack-connect-pipeline-maya/source/ftrack_connect_pipeline_maya/utils/custom_commands.py

We are not going into detail what the scene_open function does, but it tries to locate a previous published snapshot and if not found - a new one is copied from a template and saved to temp folder and opened.

Finally, to have this run during Maya startup, we add it to userSetup.py:

mypipeline/ftrack-connect-pipeline-maya/resources/scripts/userSetup.py

1def initialise():
2    ..
3
4    maya_utils.init_maya()
5
6    maya_utils.scene_open(session, logger)