pyblish-simple

A Pyblish GUI trying to be more 'intuitive' than pyblish lite & pyblish-qml

Limitations

⚠️ It was designed for validating instances, and currently doesn't show context, export or publish plugins.

left pyblish_lite, right pyblish_simple

How to use

Users

• Collected instances show on the left
• Select an instance to show relevant validations in the bottom right
• Select a validation to show it's description in the top right
• right click an instance or plugin to show it's actions in the menu.

colors:

• 🟢 green: the validation passed
• 🟠 orange: a warning, soft fail, publishing is allowed to continue
• 🔴 red: an error, hard fail, publishing is not allowed to continue
• ⚪ white: validation did not run
• ⚫ grey: validation is disabled but registered (NOT YET IMPLEMENTED)

Devs

• to hook up the fix all button: Give your plugins the attribute fix.
  Pyblish simple assumes this is a pyblish action & runs it

# code in pyblish simple
if hasattr(plugin, 'fix'):
    pyblish_action = plugin.fix
    pyblish_action.process(self=pyblish_action, context=self.context, plugin=plugin)

• avoid context plugins, and use instance plugins instead.

install

• copy paste the pyblish_simple module
• install the dependencies Qt.py & optionally PyQt5_stylesheets

to launch the UI, run:

import pyblish_simple
pyblish_simple.show()

What's pyblish simple & why was it developed?

The standard UI for Pyblish confused artists:

• it shows which validation failed, but not which instance failed.
  e.g. Pyblish flags that a vertex is incorrect, but not which one. The artist is frustrated, because they don't know which vertex to fix.
• it shows a lot of info, overwhelming non-technical users. Artists don't find it intuitive.

To solve this, pyblish-simple shows a list of instances.
When you select an instance, it only shows the valiations that affected that instance.
This UI is much more intuitive for 3D artists.

• it shows only relevant info for each instance, hiding all other validations. Making the UI less overwhelming
• It's more relatable, because a list of instances is something the 3d artist is used to.
  e.g. a list of meshes in the scene, a list of materials in the scene, the outliner in 3ds Max, Maya, Unreal, Unity, ...

development

• improve the stylesheet. current dark mode doesn't look as nice as pyblish lite
• selected color overwrites the color, which is bad UX, fix this
• clean up the code. It's in need of some love, since it was quickly put together.
• it was designed for validating instances, and currently assumes a standard collect, validate, export, publish workflow.
  • research how to show context plugins
  • research how to show export and publish plugins

PR-s are welcome.

community

• Pyblish forum thread
• PYPI https://pypi.org/project/pyblish-simple/