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TVPaint

Setup​

When you launch TVPaint with OpenPype for the very first time it is necessary to do some additional steps. Right after the TVPaint launching a few system windows will pop up.

permission

Choose Replace the file in the destination. Then another window shows up.

permission2

Click on Continue.

After opening TVPaint go to the menu bar: Windows → Plugins → OpenPype.

pypewindow

Another TVPaint window pop up. Please press Yes. This window will be presented in every single TVPaint launching. Unfortunately, there is no other way how to workaround it.

writefile

Now OpenPype Tools menu is in your TVPaint work area.

openpypetools

You can start your work.

Usage​

In TVPaint you can find the Tools in OpenPype menu extension. The OpenPype Tools menu should be available in your work area. However, sometimes it happens that the Tools menu is hidden. You can display the extension panel by going to Windows -> Plugins -> OpenPype.

Create​

In TVPaint you can create and publish Reviews, Workfile, Render Passes and Render Layers.

You have the possibility to organize your layers by using Color group.

On the bottom left corner of your timeline, you will note a Color group button.

colorgroups

It allows you to choose a group by checking one of the colors of the color list.

colorgroups

The timeline's animation layer can be marked by the color you pick from your Color group. Layers in the timeline with the same color are gathered into a group represents one render layer.

timeline

important

OpenPype specifically never tries to guess what you want to publish from the scene. Therefore, you have to tell OpenPype what you want to publish. There are three ways how to publish render from the scene.

When you want to publish review or render layer or render pass, open the Creator through the Tools menu Create button.

Review​

Review renders the whole file as is and sends the resulting QuickTime to Ftrack.

  • Is automatically created during publishing.

Workfile​

Workfile stores the source workfile as is during publishing (e.g. for backup).

  • Is automatically created during publishing.

Render Layer​

Render Layer bakes all the animation layers of one particular color group together.

  • Choose any amount of animation layers that need to be rendered together and assign them a color group.
  • Select any layer of a particular color
  • Go to Creator and choose RenderLayer.
  • In the Subset, type in the name that the final published RenderLayer should have according to the naming convention in your studio. (L10, BG, Hero, etc.)
  • Press Create
  • When you run publish, the whole color group will be rendered together and published as a single RenderLayer

createlayer

Render Pass​

Render Passes are smaller individual elements of a Render Layer. A character render layer might consist of multiple render passes such as Line, Color and Shadow.

Render Passes are specific because they have to belong to a particular layer. If you try to create a render pass and did not create any render layers before, an error message will pop up.

When you want to create RenderPass

  • choose one or several animation layers within one color group that you want to publish
  • In the Creator, pick RenderPass
  • Fill the Subset with the name of your pass, e.g. Color.
  • Press Create

createpass


In this example, OpenPype will render selected animation layers within the given color group. E.i. the layers L020_colour_fx, L020_colour_mouth, and L020_colour_eye will be rendered as one pass belonging to the yellow RenderLayer.

renderpass

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You can check your RendrePasses and RenderLayers in Subset Manager or you can start publishing. The publisher will show you a collection of all instances on the left side.

Publish​

Now that you have created the required instances, you can publish them via Publish tool.

  • Click on Publish in OpenPype Tools menu.
  • wait until all instances are collected.
  • You can check on the left side whether all your instances have been created and are ready for publishing.
  • Fill the comment on the bottom of the window.
  • Press the Play button to publish

pyblish

Once the Publisher turns gets green your renders have been published.

Subset Manager​

All created instances (render layers, passes, and reviews) will be shown as a simple list. If you don't want to publish some, right click on the item in the list and select Remove instance.

subsetmanager

Load​

When you want to load existing published work you can reach the Loader through the OpenPype Tools Load button.

The supported families for TVPaint are:

  • render
  • image
  • background
  • plate

To load a family item, right-click on the subset you want and import their representations, switch among the versions, delete older versions, copy files, etc.

Loader

Scene Inventory​

Scene Inventory shows you everything that you have loaded into your scene using OpenPype. You can reach it through the extension's Scene Inventory button.

sceneinventory

You can switch to a previous version of the file or update it to the latest or delete items.