Introduction

Pyblish by Example
Welcome to the Pyblish by Example tutorial.
You will learn
The basics of publishing in the production of film and games
The fundamentals of Pyblish and it's API​
How to validate content
How to guarantee valid content on export 
How to properly position and name content according to convention
How to visualise the results of one or more publishes
Developer and Artist communication through the UI
Introduction
Pyblish is an open source, cross-platform framework for test-driven content creation.
Pyblish by Example is a hands-on introduction to Pyblish using short example programs written like a book - to be read from top to bottom.
​What is Publishing?​
Installation
If you haven't already, go ahead and install Pyblish.
$ pip install pyblish-base
Any problems, have a look at the extended installation guide.
How to use this guide
Start by confirming to yourself that you are indeed using version 1.4+ of Pyblish.
>>> import pyblish
>>> pyblish.__version__
'1.4.3'
If not, see the top-left corner of this page for a dropdown of your version.
As you read through this guide it is recommended that you use the scripting API, accessible via pyblish.util.
from pyblish import util
util.publish()
Reporting issues
Should you happen to find errors or would like to contribute material to this guide, you can:
1.Click on the + button to the right of each paragraph to add a comment
2.Register on GitBook to edit this book directly.
3.Fork the GitHub repository and submit a pull-request with your changes.
Content
Have a look to the left for a table of contents, and below for related topics in the forums.
Note: The below content was written at various versions of Pyblish and may not include current best practices, but all remain forwards compatible with version 1.4.
For example, .set_data("key", "value") has been superseded by .data["key"] = "value" but will still work with newer plug-ins.
Intermediate
​Responsibility of Extractors​
​Multiple families workflow​
​Per task plug-ins​
​Publishing with comments​
​Instances and Plain-Old-Data​
​Cooperative Collection​
​Search and Customisation​
​Good to know about Pyblish​
​hosts Attribute In-Depth​
​Registration versus families​
​Backwards compatibility​
Advanced
​Magenta development thread​
​Developer Guide​
​Pyblish in 100 lines​
Changelog
2015-08-06 16:27 - Added Quickstart​
2015-08-07 10:12 - Added Architecture​
2015-08-07 10:14 - Updated Quickstart​
2015-08-07 19:17 - Added Good to know about Pyblish​
2015-08-07 20:41 - Updated Architecture​
2015-08-07 20:48 - Updated This
2015-08-09 10:51 - Updated Validating II with flow chart
2015-08-09 17:24 - Updated This, with installation instructions
2015-08-10 09:00 - Updated This
2015-08-11 07:28 - Updated Quickstart​
2015-08-11 07:30 - Updated Files with comma-separated paths
2015-08-11 07:40 - Fixed typo in Report IV​
2015-08-13 21:08 - Updated Report I-IV​
2015-08-14 09:26 - Updated Report I-II​
2015-08-18 07:02 - Added host attribute in-depth​
2015-08-18 07:22 - Added "You will learn" to This
2015-10-19 14:38 - Updated use of "Asset" to "Instance"
2015-11-19 09:07 - Updated to pure-dict
2015-12-20 21:56 - Updated image of Context + Instance.
2016-01-21 17:46 - Transitioned to GitBooks, removed section about custom test and services.
2016-06-07 09:48 - Defer use of GUI from guide.
2016-07-01 14:54 - Link to installation guide on Forum
2016-08-03 10:40 - Add intermediate and advanced links
2017-08-12 10:30 - Removed deprecated dependency injection link
Hello World
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