Author: Benjamin Slack
This utility was developed during my work on "The Wrong Rock". During the course of working on the project, there were many updates to the various assets. Unfortunately, the the way Artella handles published versions results in a new folder location for every updated asset. In a complicated scene, this can mean dozens upon dozens of references that need to have their paths updated to allow the most recent version of the asset to be used. This tool mitigates that problem by inspecting the installed versions of a given asset and updating all references to that asset in the Maya scene file accordingly. It also allows for the mapping of one asset to another, to allow for swapping out of generic character rigs with specific characters. The updating and mapping is configured through the use of a simple JSON file.