Shotgun Developer Day 2018 Resources

What is Shotgun Developer Day?

A day of classes for people interested in developing custom solutions with Shotgun. Attendees will learn how to use Shotgun’s advanced features to automate common tasks and make tool development easier. Recordings of all of the Developer Day courses can be found in this playlist.

What is this repository?

This repository contains all resources presented at the Shotgun Developer Day at SIGGRAPH 2018. This includes all of the following:

• Presentations from each session as PDFs
• Code and configuration samples as used in each presentation
• Links to videos and documentation relevant to each presentation

Sessions

Session 1: Introduction to Shotgun Development

Description: An introduction to Shotgun development and the various APIs and integrations that are available.

What you will learn from this session:

• what APIs and integrations are available on the Shotgun Platform
• which technology is right for a given production scenario
• how to query/find data using Shotgun's filter syntax
• how to use the Shotgun Python, REST APIs, Action Menu Items, and Event Daemon

Session 2: Toolkit Administration

Description: Learn how to take over our integrations and make them do what you want. Out of the box our integrations with products like Maya, Nuke, Houdini, and Photoshop allow for basic software launching and file sharing, but their true power is unleashed once you take control of the configuration and provide a custom directory structure and hooks to automate more of the data flow in your studio.

What you will learn from this session:

• how Shotgun Desktop works and what is available via the basic pipeline integrations
• how to take over a configuration and customize app UIs and configuration settings
• how to take over and customize hooks and actions

Session 3: Advanced Shotgun Development

Description: Learn how to control how our integrations behave and harness the power of our Toolkit platform to make building a pipeline easier.

What you will learn from this session:

• how to develop, package up, and distribute toolkit configurations to a remote user base
• how to develop and distribute custom toolkit apps
• how to leverage the standard toolkit frameworks for UI and data management
• what the Autodesk Forge ecosystem is and how it can be used with Shotgun

Materials for each session can be found in the corresponding folders in this repository.

If you have any questions, please contact support@shotgunsoftware.com.