AY-7398_Houdini: Attach automatic thumbnail /review to model publishes

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Please describe the enhancement you have in mind and explain what the current shortcomings are?

When publishing a model or pointcache the resulting product has no thumbnail. It would be nice if this could get some visual of the content automatically, similar to e.g. a workfile product (which gets a single frame viewport screenshot).

Some ideas:

enabling the default workfile thumbnail to also go to the other publishes is definitely possible and a simple step.
connecting a dedicated review (e.g. openGL ROP) to another publish instance(which could be a turntable) would be way more powerful and allow for any customization. - but more work. "Attaching reviewables" is a workflow that currently exists in the maya integration.
with 2) it wouldn't be far off potentially from supporting custom 'automatic previews' to be added to any model, like a turntable without requiring to have the OpenGL ROP setup (manually) in your scene for that. How much that is actually worth it depends on your workflow. A workfile template that has all that set up using technique 2) could do that as well. Anyway still interesting - and definitely sensible in some of the automations we're looking for.

How would you imagine the implementation of the enhancemenent?

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Describe alternatives you've considered:

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Additional context:

link to discussion on Discord
(might be a private channel)

This issue was automatically created from Clickup ticket AY-7398