Having a bit of a scripting issue (or maybe not understanding something properly when it comes to how Generation reads its own project files?) that I could use some help with.
In the past, I've written a script to auto generate projects within Generation. This works fairly well, however, when dealing with 100s to 1000s of items for dailies, it becomes a bit slow. I took a look into what the Generation .genprj file actually looks like and noticed that it was mainly just an xml file. So the theory was to just recreate it externally and use a batch file to have Generation load the created project, thus eliminating the need to open Generation and load each item one by one.
Overall, this works. It works on a single shot fairly well, even an entire show. The problem is that its inconsistent when handling multiple shows and I'm not 100% sure why. At first I thought that it had to do with UUIDs, but I took them out of the original .genprj and Generation still loaded it with no issues. So I added my own and still got no issues on a small scale. I have attached copies of my .genprj's, one done by Generation and one done externally. On paper, the two look the same with the exception of item names and filepaths, but that is expected. The item names to match properly to their version indexes and layed out the same; and the filepaths do exist for both. So I'm very curious as to what the issue may be. I've narrowed it down to one project that doesn't want to load properly to start with.
Unfortunately, Generation has poor error logging. In the command prompt that opens, they load the same, and when using "compare" in Notepad++, they look the same. So I'm at a bit at a lost. If anyone has any ideas, beers are on me if you're in the LA area.
-StevieB
