free8011 / tactic-handler

PySide based TACTIC client for maya, nuke, 3dsmax, houdini, etc

TACTIC-Handler

PySide based Southpaw TACTIC client that can help you commit assets to TACTIC Can be used with Standalone or with Autodesk Maya 2014-2018+, The Foundry Nuke, Autodesk 3DSmax, Houdini, etc...

Key Feauters:

• Qt Based UI
• Runnable standalone or within any App with Python and PySide, PyQt4+
• Rich Functionality, like commiting UDIM textures with sequences, or Sequences of animation, with proper naming.
• Can be customized by anyone
• Small but useful api, it is like object-based wrap to xmlrpc api provided with TACTIC.
• Threads based UI, not freezing when fetching info from DB.
• Basic commenting system. Editing, creating sobjects and etc from database.
• In developement and use by today, frequent updates and bugfixes.
• Server-side script editor.
• Rich customization, server presets, many useful and small things that can help you with your everyday work and etc...

Wiki Page about What is this and what's going on.

Wiki Page with How to Start Instructions

Main Window screenshot:

Tabs navigation:

Tasks navigation, Editing:

Advanced Search:

Sync Files from Remote Repository:

Main Window screenshot:

Server-side script editor (useful for TACTIC developers)

Commiting drag-and-dropped files, sequences stc...:

How commited sequences looks:

Customization ability:

Youtube Setup instructions video

Youtube Old in Maya version

Youtube Old Standalone version

What is this TACTIC? TACTIC – it's something! Go here if you don't know TACTIC Opensourse Basically it is powerful asset management system, primarily for CG, but can be aciquired to any kind of your business needs. Thanks to its powerful customization ability. Then what TACTIC Handler? Yup, may be you don't need this either, if you already using TACTIC. But if you don't this tool can handle you in some cases. Because TACTIC is client-server system, and work with the Web, and your browser (which make it runnable basically on everything), not so comfortable to use it with your favorite content making apps, like Maya, 3dsmax, or something similar. TACTIC Handler gives you ability to use BASIC functions of TACTIC, without leaving your favorite app. You can spend some time to set up TACTIC and then TACTIC Handler for you, and can have big amount of time saved.