Desktop Tool/en

Wizart Desktop - special standalone software that hanging at Windows System Tray, and can download and upload all files you need on our FTP server. When download is finished, it can make system tray notifications, on download success or failure.

First Install

Start Wizart Desktop from new Maya menu Wizart Animation => Wizart Desktop Tool

When Wizart Desktop Window appeared, enter login and password that supervising animator gave you earlier.

Specify root folder for your project files, this folder will contain all files you need, so make sure that you have enough disk space.

Press download and if login and password entered correctly earlier, you ftp download will start.

Wait for completing of download process, usually it takes 10-15 minutes. You can check progress bar and watch download log at Wizart Desktop.

When download is completed, you can find your files inside "projects" folder. "work" folder will be used for uploading files back to us.

Now you can start working in Maya. For example, Layout for Episode 17 Scene 04a you can find at path

{your_folder}/sq4/04_Episodes/Ep_17/LayOut-Out/Scene_04a/ep_17_sc04a_layout_v03.ma

where {your_folder} is your projects root folder you specified earlier.

Upload Files to FTP

We have special working local folder work, that you musted use for exchange files with us. The same folder we have on FTP server, and using Wizart Desktop it syncing/mirroring folder contents between your PC and FTP server.

You can delete files locally, copy files to this folder and that will trigger upload to FTP server.

To make easier visually understand what happening with work folder Wizart Desktop have special are in UI called "Work Area". You can see here work folder contents.

You can drag&drop file to Work Area and that will trigger FTP upload.

Also you can drag&drop multiples files to Work Area.

If you press button Open Folder in Explorer', that will open local work folder in standard Windows Explorer. You can drop files there, and Wizart Desktop watch folder changes and trigger server syncing. You can use this feature for copying files to upload any way you like, e.g. using Total Commander.

If you not sure that files are synced with server, e.g if you switched off Wizart Desktop for a while, you can activate upload if you press Ftp Upload' button.

You can delete files using RMB context menu, or any way you like in local work folder (e.g. using Windows Explorer). Warning! That will delete files on FTP too!