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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.

Download Files

1. Start Wizart Desktop from desktop shortcut Start=>Wizart Animation => Wizart Desktop OR manually via path if you have default installation

C:/Program Files (x86)/Wizart Animation/wizart_desktop/wizart_desktop.exe

2. Во вкладке Actions введите логин и пароль, которые вам ранее прислал супервайзинг аниматор.

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

4. Load the project configurations by selecting the Sync Projects Config menu item. If all the settings are correct, the download will start, otherwise the corresponding error notification will appear in the logs. After the configuration synchronization is complete, download the project data using the Data Sync> Data Sync Download button.

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

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

Select Project

With your project files, you will also download project-specific software config files. Usually they placed in specified folder:

{your_folder}/projects/<project_code>/.config

1. When files downloaded, select menu command Rescan Projects Config, and after that your Appstab must be filled with projects you have access.

2. When you have the files in the project list, you can double-click to go to the project. Wizart Desktop will remember your chosen project for the next run. Next, you will see a list of available programs.

3. In appeared tab you can find Maya icon, at first software install start, gray, inactive icon. You need to tell Wizart Desktop where is Maya installed on your PC. There are two ways of doing that.

4. Click Right Mouse Button on Maya icon and in context menu select Scan for Software, and Wizart Desktop will try to find Maya at default installation path. It could fail on your configuration. In that case, use the way below.

5. Click Right Mouse Button on Maya icon and in context menu select Scan Software Executable Path, and use the showed dialog windows to specify location for maya.exe file.

6. When you find Maya location in any of ways above, icon will be colored and you can now start Maya using double click.

7. Now you can start working in Maya.

Important

Note that it is ALWAYS necessary to run Maya through Wizart Desktop in order for it to set up the correct environment for loading resources.

Quick Launch Setup

You can launch the application with the necessary plug-ins in the usual way from a convenient place without opening Wizart Desktop every time:

Right-click on the application icon and select Create Desktop Shortcut. An application launch file will be created on the desktop.	Another way to create a launcher is to drag the icon of the desired program onto the desktop by holding down the Shift key.

Settings Wizart Desktop The settings window can be opened from the application menu Wizart Desktop.
Redefinition MAYA_APP_DIR MAYA_APP_DIR - This variable defines your personal Maya application directory. This directory contains your projects and other important items. You can only set MAYA_APP_DIR from the operating system. This can be useful when working on several different projects. For example, simultaneous loading of a large number of scripts from different projects can cause a crash. You can override MAYA_APP_DIR when starting Maya using Wizart Desktop. To do this, specify the directory address and enable the option Change Path to MAYA_APP_DIR.
Desktop Alerts Using the function Desktop Alerts, you can disable the display of notifications Wizart Desktop on the desktop. The output to the tab Log will continue.

Software Updates

To fix all problems with our software updates and improve your experience, we embedded software updates checking system into Wizart Desktop.

Its checks on startup and then every half hour. You need internet connection for that.

Also you can forcefully check updates using menu option Check Software Updates.

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!