Updated 2019-08-11 

User Interface

This page is specifically about the Allzpark graphical user interface.

Advanced Controls

In the Preferences you'll find an option to enable "Advanced Controls". These are designed to separate what is useful to an artist versus a developer.

Multiple Application Versions

Sometimes you need multiple versions of a single application accessible via the same profile. Per default, Allzpark only displays the latest version of the versions available.

allzparkconfig.py

Here's the default.

def applications_from_package(variant):
    requirements = variant.requires or []

    apps = list(
        str(req)
        for req in requirements
        if req.weak
    )

    return apps

allzparkconfig.py

As you can see, the default only returns the one request for an application. But Allzpark will display every version you return, here's an example of that.

def applications_from_package(variant):
    from allzpark import _rezapi as rez

    # May not be defined
    requirements = variant.requires or []

    apps = list(
        str(req)
        for req in requirements
        if req.weak
    )

    # Strip the "weak" property of the request, else iter_packages
    # isn't able to find the requested versions.
    apps = [rez.PackageRequest(req.strip("~")) for req in apps]

    # Expand versions into their full range
    # E.g. maya-2018|2019 == ["maya-2018", "maya-2019"]
    flattened = list()
    for request in apps:
        flattened += rez.find(
            request.name,
            range_=request.range,
        )

    # Return strings
    apps = list(
        "%s==%s" % (package.name, package.version)
        for package in flattened
    )

    return apps

Applications from Data

In addition to the above, you could also specify applications explicitly in your profile data.

Alita/package.py

name = "alita"
version = "1.0"
_data = {
    "apps": ["maya-2018", "vs-2019", "zbrush", "mudbox"]
}

allzparkconfig.py

def applications_from_package(package):
    try:
        return package._data["apps"]

    except (AttributeError, KeyError):
        # If there isn't any data, just do what you normally do
        from allzpark.allzparkconfig import _applications_from_package

        # Every variable and function from allzparkconfig has this hidden
        # alternative reference, with a "_" prefix.
        return _applications_from_package(package)

And as a side-note, here you can also return multiple versions of a given application.

name = "alita"
version = "1.0"
_data = {
    "apps": [
        "maya-2018",
        "maya-2019",
        "maya-2020",
    ]
}