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Lesson 1: Setting up an asset

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Setting Black Box mode

Although Views encourage certain users to only modify certain attributes, it is still possible for a user to inadvertently access and change attributes that they shouldn’t. To greatly increase the integrity of your asset, you can set it to Black Box mode.

When Black Box mode is turned on, users can only see the container itself and all of its published attributes and published nodes. A user cannot open a container in the Outliner, Hypergraph, or other editors, to view the unpublished attributes and unpublished nodes inside. An additional benefit of this is that it greatly decreases the complexity of scenes in editors since it reduces entire trees of objects to a single object.

To turn on Black Box mode

1. In the Outliner, select Fire_truck_CNT.
2. In the Attribute Editor, in the Container Attributes section, turn on Black Box.

Now if you look at the Outliner, the expand icon next to Fire_truck_CNT has disappeared. If you try clicking it, Maya does not allow you to expand it to see its children.