Katana Integration

  1. Locate the startup scripts folder

Tip

In Windows, it is under %userprofile%/.katana

  1. If it is not already exists, create init.py in startup folder and add the following lines:

# Tik Manager 4 [Start]
import sys
import os
tik_path = "PATH/TO/PARENT/FOLDER/OF/TIKMANAGER4/"
if not tik_path in sys.path:
    sys.path.append(tik_path)
os.environ["QT_PREFERRED_BINDING_JSON"] = '{"tik_manager4.ui.Qt": ["PyQt5"], "default":["PyQt5"]}'
# Tik Manager 4 [End]

  1. Replace PATH/TO/PARENT/FOLDER/OF/TIKMANAGER4/ with the path of where the PARENT of tik_manager folder is. Use forward slashes between folder names.

Attention

The Path MUST be the parent of the tik_manager4 folder. If you extracted the contents directly from the zip file it will be something like tik_manager4-4.0.1-alpha.

  1. In the same startup directory, locate the shelves folder and copy the entire /tik_manager4/dcc/katana/setup/tik4 folder to the shelves folder.

  2. (Optional) To get the icons to show up in the shelf, you can edit the all shelf files (main_ui.py, new_version.py, publish.py) and replace the icon paths with the correct paths. Simply replace PATH/TO/PARENT/FOLDER/OF/TIKMANAGER4 parts with the physical path of the parent folder of tik_manager4.

  3. Restart Katana. Shelf should be visible on main menu Shelf Actions button (The one with the gear icon).