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Importing assets to dress a scene

Lesson 2: Using assets in a scene

Binding attributes

 

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Assigning an existing template to a container

You can use assets to replace the existing police car in the scene with the fire truck model you created in Lesson 1, without losing the existing animation.

First you need to make sure that the published attributes of the police car and fire truck match precisely. To do this, you can reuse the template you created in Lesson 1 from the fire truck to define the police car.

To assign a template to a container

1. Select Assets > Asset Editor.

   The Asset Editor appears.

   

2. In the left column of the Asset Editor, select police_car_CNT.
3. Click the pin icon ( ).
4. Select Template > Assign > Assign New Template.

   A file browser appears.

5. Navigate to the emergency_vehicle.template file you created in Lesson 1 and select it.

   If you didn’t start at Lesson 1, navigate to Getting Started/Assets/assets/templates and select the file emergency_vehicle.template.

6. Click Select.

   A number of the attribute icons turn green, while others turn yellow. To better organize this, you can apply the template’s views.

7. View > Mode > Use Template.

   The right panel is split into a number of sections.

   The majority of the attribute icons in the police_car_CNT section are green. This signifies that they have been bound to identical published names that were found in the template.

However, there are a set of published names without icons next to them. These represent published names that the template is expecting, but couldn’t find. In some cases this may mean you need to bind and publish additional attributes to fulfill them.