Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.3.4

What's new?
There was a problem with the deployment of the previous release of the Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.3.3. This is the exact same release.

Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.3.3

What's new?
Adding support for Python 3.7 to some apps, engines and framework, official support for Nuke 12.1 and 3ds Max 2021, as well as a number of improved features and bug fixes, including:

• Added some improvements to the Python console, and
• Fixed a regression introduced in tk-multi-reviewsubmission v1.0.0 where the new_version_status setting where missing.

Features/Polish

• Here are new bundles with support for Python 3.7:

  • Apps

    • tk-multi-publish2 v2.5.0
    • tk-multi-setframerange v0.4.1

  • Engines

    • tk-aftereffects v0.2.0
    • tk-houdini v1.7.0
    • tk-maya v0.10.0
    • tk-photoshopcc v1.8.0
    • tk-vred v2.0.4

  • Frameworks

    • tk-framework-adobe v1.1.0

• Official support for Nuke 12.1 [SG-16797]

• Official support for 3ds Max 2021 [SG-15258]

• Added some improvements to the Python console, including: [SG-15849]

  • Adds block indenting and unindenting. You can select multiple and press tab or shift + tab to indent and unindent the selected lines without removing the contents.
  • Adds block commenting and uncommenting. You can select multiple lines and press cmd + / on Mac, or ctrl + / on Linux to add or remove # characters from the start of each line. If at least one of the selected lines doesn't start with a # then it will comment the selection, otherwise if all selected lines have a # it will uncomment the lines.
  • Pressing return on a line will start the next line at the same level of indentation, unless you are pressing return after a : character, in which case it will indent the next line by an additional four spaces.
  • Saving a script now defaults to a .py extension.
  • The selected line highlight has been now toned down a little and the comments brightened a little to make the text more readable.

• Software entity now gets passed through as a keyword argument to the before_app_launch.py and app_launch.py hooks. Additional Software entity fields can be specified via the new software_entity_extra_fields app setting. They will be fetched by the app and included in the Software entity dictionary that gets passed to the hooks. Huge thanks to Unai Martínez Barredo for their awesome help on implementing this. [SG-8280]

• You can now specify arguments on the Software entity via the dedicated args fields, and have them take effect without having to also set the path to the software. That means custom args can now be used in conjunction with the auto software detection logic. [SG-15349]

• The contents of the Software entity description field will now be used as the Tooltip message in Shotgun Desktop if provided. Huge thanks to Joe Yu for providing that. [16556]

Fixed bugs

• Fixed a regression introduced in tk-multi-reviewsubmission v1.0.0 where the new_version_status setting where missing. [SG-16674]
• Fixed an issue in tk-3dsmax with the way toolkit panels behave when closed. This fix ensures that the widget inside the panel will now close properly instead of being hidden. [SG-15881]
• Fixed an issue in the Publish API where it would attempt to update the UI even if there was no UI present. [SG-15848]
• Added support for the existing VRED_SCRIPT_PLUGINS environment variable if it is set.
• Fixed a bug when VRED is launched into a Task context via bootstrapping.

Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.3.2

What's new?
Adding support for Python 3.7 to some apps, as well as few bug fixes.

Features/Polish
Here are new bundles with support for Python 3.7:

• Apps
  • tk-multi-loader2 v1.20.0
  • tk-multi-pythonconsole v1.2.1
  • tk-multi-shotgunpanel v1.7.0

Fixed bugs

• Fixed a bug where methods run in the Python console could not access the global scoped variables. For example, importing a module and then using it within a method would throw a NameError before the fix. Huge thanks to Joe Hultgren for providing this fix. [SG-4610]
• Updated the Loader and Shotgun panel hooks in tk-3dsmax to be compatible with Python 3. [SG-15630]

Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.3.1

Fixed bug

• Fixed an issue where Playblast to Create was failing with Maya versions older than 2019. This fix ensures Playblast to Create is working fine with Maya versions back to 2016. [SG-15735]

Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.3.0

What's new?
We are excited to release v1.3 of our integrations. This release includes support for Python 3.7 to tk-core, a new 3dsmax engine which switches to the pymxs API for the integration with 3ds Max, a new Send for Review workflow is now included into Maya and Photoshop integrations, as well as a number of improved features and bug fixes.

Support for Python 3.7
Toolkit core v0.19 allows it to be imported and used with Python 3.7. New APIs were introduced to help porting Toolkit applications to Python 3. They can be found at the tk-core release notes page.

Here are current bundles with support for Python 3.7:

• Apps

  • tk-multi-about v0.3.0
  • tk-multi-demo v1.2.0
  • tk-multi-launchapp v0.11.1

• Engines

  • tk-3dsmax v1.1.1
  • tk-shell v0.8.0

• Frameworks

  • tk-framework-qtwidgets v2.9.1
  • tk-framework-shotgunutils v5.7.2
  • tk-framework-widget v0.2.8

3ds Max engine
This new engine switches to the pymxs API for the integration with 3ds Max. This new engine supports 3ds Max 2017 and up. 

A migration guide exists for clients that are using the tk-3dsmaxplus engine and want to migrate to tk-3dsmax. It can be found at the tk-3dsmax engine's documentation page.

Send for Review
Send for Review introduce a new workflow between Maya/Photoshop and Shotgun Create. You can now send playblast or image as a draft to Shotgun Create, which trigger a new version and put Create in draft mode, where you can submit a review.

Additional features/polish

• Official support for Houdini 18.0. [SG-15250]
• Publishes now show the entity display name instead of the entity name in Loader2 and Breakdown apps. [SG-15293]
• Added PySide2 support to tk-shell. [SG-9787]

Fixed bugs

• Fixed a regression introduced in the previous release of tk-desktop, where python processes would be left orphaned instead of being closed when leaving the project in Shotgun Desktop. [SG-15442]
• Fixed an error we were getting in the script editor after launching Maya 2020 on mac. It prevented Workfiles2 to auto launch on startup. [SG-15270]
• Fixed a bug in tk-framework-desktopserver, where a browser could reject the shotgunlocalhost.com certificate. [SG-14130]
• Fixed a bug where Shotgun Desktop wasn't logging a full error traceback if an error occurred when loading a project configuration, or when running an app. [SG-6422]

Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.2.12

What’s new?
Automotive tools, Alias and VRED, are now integrated in tk-config-basic, as well as a number of improved features and bug fixes, including:

• Official support for Nuke 12.0, and
• Fixed a bug for the tk-multi-publish2 Tree.save method, where it wouldn't throw the correct error if an object in the tree was not serializable.

Features/Polish

• Automotive tools, Alias and VRED, are now integrated in tk-config-basic. [SG-15066]
• Official support for Nuke 12.0. [SG-14164]

Fixed bugs

• Fixed a bug for the tk-multi-publish2 Tree.save method, where it wouldn't throw the correct error if an object in the tree was not serializable. [SG-14693]

Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.2.11

What’s new?
Added a configuration option that can force users to assign a task to a publish, as well as a number of improved features and bug fixes, including:

• Added a menu_name app setting in tk-multi-setframerange, that allows you to define multiple instances of the app with different Shotgun menu names, and
• Fixed an issue in tk-core where includes were not processed in order.

Features/Polish

• Added a configuration option that can force users to assign a task to a publish. If the task_required application setting is set to True, the publisher will validate that a task is selected for every item and will enable or disable the Validate and Publish buttons accordingly. [SG-14523]
• Added a menu_name app setting in tk-multi-setframerange, that allows you to define multiple instances of the app in an environment with different Shotgun menu names. [SG-14278]
• Supports Adobe's new installation path convention for Photoshop and After Effects 2020+ releases. [SG-14728]
• Get and set frame range methods broken out into hooks. Software specific logic for getting and setting the frame range have now been split out into hooks. A big thanks to Diego Garcia Huerta and Alex Hughes for their contributions to this improvement. [SG-13347]
• Publishing an item under a parent item that uses a file url will now properly create a Published File Dependency entity in Shotgun. [SG-9750]
• Using Flame's python to upload thumbnails to Shotgun instead of system python that might not have the correct OpenSSL/certify packages installed. [SMOK-52708]

Fixed bugs

• Fixed an issue in tk-core where includes were not processed in order. This caused issues when includes were used to override template or environment parameters. A big thanks to Barbara Laigneau for her contribution to this bug fix. [SG-6255]
• Fixed an issue where Toolkit applications could not be launched from Shotgun Create after a software update. [VMR-2799]
• Fixed an issue where clicking the Copy To Clipboard action in the publisher logs didn't copy text selection to the clipboard in certain versions of PySide2. [SG-9750]
• Fixed an issue in tk-framework-qtwidgets that occurred when updating the content of the activity stream in the Shotgun Panel app. [SG-14203]
• Fixed an issue in tk-nuke engine, that caused the last path appended to sys.path during engine initialization to be removed from sys.path once bootstrapping completed. Also removed a redundant addition of the engine's python module to sys.path. [SG-14409]
• Fixed an issue preventing from selecting a new context from the context selection widget in certain versions of PySide2. [SG-14388]

Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.2.10

Features/Polish

• Added support for uploading PDF files to Shotgun as reviewable versions from the standalone publish app. [SG-13590]
• The context selector's my task drop down, now shows tasks assigned to a user's group as well as directly to the user. A big thanks to Rob Aitchison for his contribution to this improvement. [SG-14166]

Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.2.9

Fixed bugs

• Fixed an issue when copying a path from the Shotgun Panel’s action menu to the clipboard in certain versions of PySide2. [SG-13847]
• Fixed an issue with Single Sign-On when using NTLM on a domain-bound macOS or Linux computer. [SG-13474]

Shotgun Basic Configuration v1.2.8

Fixed bug

• Fixed a regression introduced in tk-nuke v0.12.0 causing Nuke to freeze on startup in certain situations when launched through Shotgun on Windows. [SG-12549]