[Tutorial] Reference Grouping Tool / by Jeremy Ernst

I had someone ask me about how to go about creating a tool that would allow you to group references to unload/load with one click, any references in that group. This person was looking to learn a bit more python, so I recorded my process as I built the tool.

The recordings are not edited, so I do stumble through some parts, and the code is probably not as clean as it could be. (Also used my shitty headset mic instead of my good setup, sorry about that).

This is what the final result looks like. Each object is a referenced file. Those references can be added to groups, and all references in a group can be loaded or unloaded with a click.

Below are the video recordings of me building the tool.

Full script: