v2.0.8

Significant performance enhancement and multiple project workflow improvements.

Improvements

• [SHOT-3565] - Import as Reference now supports multiple entities
• [SHOT-3566] - Import as Reference now works across multiple projects

Fixed Bugs

• [SHOT-3208] - Alias performance when the Shotgun background task manager is used is now greatly improved
• [SHOT-3589] - Scene Breakdown app now supports multiple entities

v2.0.7

Refactor of Alias engine to improve underlying architecture.
This engine version requires tk-framework-aliastranslations v0.1.1

Improvements

• [SHOT-3344] - Add "Maximum Version" dialog to show when using the Shotgun engine in an untested Alias version
• [SHOT-3464] - Action to import an image into Alias has been renamed from "Import into Scene" to "Create Canvas"
• [SHOT-3431] - Update Shotgun Panel actions to have the same than the Loader's
• [SHOT-3430] - Removed the redundant Loader pop-up when loading files
• [SHOT-3438] - Prompt the user before clearing their stage
• [SHOT-3449] - Improve Snapshot Loading to better handle stages in Alias

Fixed Bugs

• [SHOT-3467], [SHOT-3468] - Publishing Variants & Annotations fails in Basic Config if no task was selected
• [SHOT-3494],[SHOT-3498] - Fixed a bug where Alias did not open when the plugins.lst file was in a read only directory

v2.0.6

Important Notes:

Official Support for Alias 2021 and Python 3

We have introduced a dependency on tk-framework-aliastranslations to standardize the handling of file translations for Alias and generic 3D file formats. If upgrading from a prior engine version, you will need to manually add this framework

Improvements:

• [SHOT-3224] & [SHOT-3227] - Integrate Alias 2020.2 "Import as Reference" functionality to Alias Loader
  • See Configuration Updates to make this work for your configuration
• [SHOT-3306] - Use the new tk-framework-aliastranslations when publishing an Alias translation
• [SHOT-3315] - Add a validate() method to the publish_variants.py plugin
• [SHOT-2419] - Launch tk-multi-workfiles2 on startup in Alias & VRED
• [SHOT-3297] - Launch Shotgun Panel on Startup of Alias and VRED in Basic Config

Fixed Bugs:

• [SHOT-3251] - Context lost after loading a snapshot in Alias

v2.0.5

Official Support for Alias 2020.3

Import Notes:

• Adding LMV will require a new framework tk-framework-lmv.
• Creating a 3D Version from Alias will now use the sg_uploaded_movie field. If you are using the legacy 3D viewer you will need to modify the field name to continue using it.
• Upgrading to this engine version will require tk-core version of at least 19.3.

Improvements

• For OBJ, TSM, F3D, SF3D file formats, allow to Import Subdiv via the Loader. (available in Alias 2020.2 and newer)
• Improve Alias auto-discovery logic and allowing for overrides of your Alias install path using the Software entities
• Add Alias Publish hook that creates a Version that can be 3D or 2D with a boolean flag
• When creating Variants as Notes on Publish, fill both the thumbnail and the attachment fields on the Note entity to improve viewability
• Included a "Shotgun Legacy" plugin for Alias versions older than 2020.2
• Create the Upstream and Downstream dependencies when publishing files from Alias
• Adding "Translator Settings" in the "Publish Translation" when publishing from Alias allowing a studio to choose the default to include the user description on all Published translated files

Fixed Bugs

• Do not loop through Alias Variants when opening the Publisher Dialog
• Fixed crashing when opening on a new stage
• Support publishing many variants
• Publishing a lot of variants doesn't work in Alias?
• Publishing variants would fails if no Version was selected by the user. If no Version is created, the Notes are only linked to the Published File. Otherwise, they are linked to both the Published File and the Version
• Thumbnail will now show the user selected screenshot instead of the whole viewport
• Incorrect Shader when Publishing thumbnails for Alias Variants

v2.0.4

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed backwards compatibility for Alias Shotgun Plugin

v2.0.3

Improvements

• Remove old translation plugins.

• Make translation plugin just one.

• Do not use the alias_translator_dir setting anymore.

• Get command line for translations into a single plugin to be used in standalone publish 2 plugin.

• Clean Loader hook for Alias.

• Clean Hook and be sure the basic actions are added in Shotgun Panel (Set Task in Progress, Assign myself to Task).

Fixed Bugs

• Context lost after loading a file in a newly created file.

• Fix the way we get the translator path for backward compatibility.

• Alias doesn't show thumbnails and won't open in create.

• Add start_version_control publish plugin to Alias engine.

v2.0.2

Improvements:

• Move the collector logic from tk-config to tk-alias engine
• Create the publish2 plugins for tk-config-basic

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed a bug related with context switching when user wanted to save a file outside Shotgun.

v2.0.1

• Fixed a bug in the menu where snapshot and snapshot history were launching the same app.

• Fixed a bug with the plugin in fresh installations. This was ocurring when a python 2.7.X is not installed on the machine or the PATH environment variable doesn't contain a python executable folder.

v2.0.0

With this major release we have added a new communication framework to improve the overall speed and resiliency between Alias and Shotgun. We have also addressed some cleanup and consistency with the rest of toolkit and fixed some customer bugs.

Features/Polish:

• Replaced Alias communication protocol with Shotgun using pybind11 library
• Remove dependency of tk-framework-atf
• Make tk-framework-locking an optional dependency
• Change hooks from tk-multi-breakdown, tk-multi-loader2, tk-multi-snapshot, tk-multi-workfiles2 and tk-multi-shotgunpanel to match existing Shotgun tk-default-config2 hook structure
• Removed the about app and created software_credits files in each app/engine/framework repo
• Cleanup messages in Publish logs while in DEBUG mode
• Add sg_uploaded_movie for each Version created from Alias Publish
• Modified WREF Publish Description in Publish hooks
• Remove "Screening Room..." options in Alias
• Improve Publish Hooks to support when publishing to a permission restricted directory
• Remove "Import into a New Scene" action in tk-multi-loader2
• Linked Task to Notes when publishing annotations and variants from Alias
• Improved popup notification when loading in files from the Loader

Fixed Bugs:

• Fixed some bugs related with the locking framework:
  • Unable to save file to Shotgun after publishing
  • Opening a file in Alias fails if using default file_usage_hook
• Failed to Publish file with external references
• Failed to publish file with variants
• Failed to save file with external references
• Alias Alternatives don't update when updating a reference using the Scene Breakdown app
• Redraw Alias viewport when a "Scene Breakdown Update Selected" completes to show the changes

2019.0 v1.0.1

Initial commit