Show in Contents

Add to Favorites

Home: Autodesk Maya Online Help

 

Setting Black Box mode

Lesson 1: Setting up an asset

Lesson 2: Using assets in a scene

 

Learning Resources > Tutorials > Getting Started with Maya > Assets > Lesson 1: Setting up an asset > 

Beyond the lesson

In this lesson you learned how to encapsulate objects into an asset.

• You can create a container that encapsulates existing objects in the scene.
• You can publish attributes to a container.
• You can create custom attributes, connect them to objects in the scene, and then publish those custom attributes.
• You can use the Asset Editor to create a template for an existing asset.
• You can create and customize Views of an asset.
• You can assign a custom icon to an asset.
• You can set an asset to Black Box mode to hide its unpublished contents.