Assets Browser is a Python app that are designed to manage and browse assets for 3DCG/VFX pipeline.
This is still an ongoing progress and minor bugs are expected.
During my time working for a small 3DCG studio, the creation of new assets are tedious since it is created manually by hand using Windows Explorer.
Furthermore, there are issues with user permission problem that requires the artist to refer to their team leader or project manager to help them create the assets which affect productivity.
Plus navigating the various assets on the server are not friendly using Windows Explorer.
For reasons above, I decided to write this Python app which helps to minimise the effort of creating new assets with parameters that meets the studio's pipeline (which can be customised to fit your pipeline environment) and greatly speed up the navigation of the available assets based on the project.
Since this code is written in Python, it can be easily deployed to any workstations provided the necessary dependencies has been installed.
- Navigate assets based on projects from a dropdown list.
- Create new assets using dialog with options.
- Configurable assets' folder structure template via INI.
- IN PROGRESS: Integrated assets' help file for artists' reference.
Requirements
- Python 3.6.xx - Tested on 3.6.7 x64
- PyQt5 - Tested on 5.11.3 for Python 3 x64
Currently develop on Windows 7 and verify manually on Ubuntu 16.10. macOS support are not guaranteed as I do not have access to macOS devices.
- Clone or download the repository.
- Extract to your chosen destination.
- Run
assetsbrowser.py
# Run every tests
python -m pytest
# Run specific module tests
python -m pytest <module_name>/tests