Thumb nails at publish time

jkiser · October 22, 2019, 7:49pm

Can anyone point me in the direction of where the logic for thumbnail captures happen at publish time? I love the thumb nail system but what I am looking to do is augment that just a bit and automatically capture a thumb nail at publish time in maya if the user has not made one. I know the call is upload_thumbnail I just don’t happen to see where the call for this happening.

philip.scadding · October 23, 2019, 9:09am

Sure! The uploading of the thumbnail to the PublishedFile entity is handled via the register_publish method.
The thumbnail is added to the publish data here:

github.com

shotgunsoftware/tk-multi-publish2/blob/master/hooks/publish_file.py#L403


# arguments for publish registration
self.logger.info("Registering publish...")
publish_data = {
    "tk": publisher.sgtk,
    "context": item.context,
    "comment": item.description,
    "path": publish_path,
    "name": publish_name,
    "created_by": publish_user,
    "version_number": publish_version,
    "thumbnail_path": item.get_thumbnail_as_path(),
    "published_file_type": publish_type,
    "dependency_paths": publish_dependencies,
    "sg_fields": publish_fields
}


# add extra kwargs
publish_data.update(publish_kwargs)


# log the publish data for debugging
self.logger.debug(

And the publish data is then registered here:

github.com

shotgunsoftware/tk-multi-publish2/blob/master/hooks/publish_file.py#L426


        "action_show_more_info": {
            "label": "Publish Data",
            "tooltip": "Show the complete Publish data dictionary",
            "text": "<pre>%s</pre>" % (pprint.pformat(publish_data),)
        }
    }
)


# create the publish and stash it in the item properties for other
# plugins to use.
item.properties.sg_publish_data = sgtk.util.register_publish(
    **publish_data)
self.logger.info("Publish registered!")
self.logger.debug(
    "Shotgun Publish data...",
    extra={
        "action_show_more_info": {
            "label": "Shotgun Publish Data",
            "tooltip": "Show the complete Shotgun Publish Entity dictionary",
            "text": "<pre>%s</pre>" % (pprint.pformat(item.properties.sg_publish_data),)
        }

Under the hood, the sgtk API is using the upload_thumbnail method.

jkiser · October 23, 2019, 9:48pm

Woohoo! That works perfectly I am off and running. Thanks!

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