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Creating Views

Lesson 1: Setting up an asset

Setting Black Box mode

 

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Assigning a custom icon

Currently, Fire_truck_CNT is displayed in the Outliner and Hypergraph with the standard container icon. You can customize this icon to make the container more obvious when you place the fire truck in a scene with more than one container.

To customize the container icon

1. Select Fire_truck_CNT in the Outliner.
2. In the Attribute Editor, under the Fire_truck_CNT tab, open the Container Attributes section.

   This section displays all of the container’s own attributes.

3. Click the file icon button next to Icon Name.

   A file browser appears.

4. Navigate to Getting Started/Assets/sourceimages/xpm and select fire_truck_icon.xpm.
5. Click Open.

The image changes to a small fire truck icon.