The Preload Reference Editor is
used when you want to select specific file references to be loaded
or unloaded when the scene is opened. The Preload Reference Editor appears
when you open a file when the Selective Preload option
is turned on.
To
selectively load file and proxy references using the Preload
Reference Editor
- Select
File > Open Scene > .
The Open
Options window appears.
- In the Referencing options
section, turn on Selective Preload, then click Open.
The file browser appears,
listing the default scene directory for your project.
- Select the file that contains the file
references you want to load, then click Open.
The Preload
Reference Editor appears. The Preload Reference Editor lists all
available file references for the scene. Depending on how the Referencing options
were set, some file references will appear loaded or unloaded in
the Preload Reference Editor. When
an icon appears beside a particular file reference it indicates
that one or more proxy references exist for that reference.
- Select one or more items in the Preload
Reference Editor by doing one of the following:
- Click the check box next to a reference
to indicate that you wish the reference to be loaded.
- -click
an item and select Bring in Reference Loaded or Bring
in Reference Unloaded from the menu that appears.
- -click
an item and select Set Active Proxy To from the
menu that appears. When a file reference contains one or more proxy
references, the Set Active Proxy To option
appears. Set Active Proxy lets you select
which proxy reference you want to load into the scene by displaying
the list of available proxy references (by their proxy tags) in
the Set Active Proxy To submenu.
TipIt is possible to
set the load or active state for multiple proxies simultaneously
when using the Preload Reference Editor. The
list of proxy tags that appear in Set Active Proxy To submenu
(when multiple file references are selected) is generated from all
of the proxy tags currently in use for the proxy sets associated
with the selected file references.
NoteLoading and unloading
references works hierarchically; that is, switching the top-level
load status of a parent to unloaded means that all child references
are also not loaded.