Assets panel
The Assets panel is one of the workhorse panels of HeroBlade. In this panel, you can:
- Open the Asset Library
- View, add, or remove assets in the area
- View, add, or remove instances of any asset
- Clone instances
- Copy/paste instance properties
- Move to the position of any instance in the area
- Associate any selected instance with one of the area's room
- Create and copy particle effects
- Change an assets model
- Perform various cleanup tasks:
- Remove assets which have not been instanced in the current area
- Locate any duplicated instances, by room or by area
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Assets
The title of the group box displays the name of the current room, followed by the assets that have currently been loaded into the area. If an asset is greyed out, it means that a particular asset has been loaded into the area, but there are no instances of that asset in the current Room (though there may or may not still be instances in other rooms of the same area). To see if other instances of a greyed-out asset may exist in other rooms, select a different room name either via the Area panel. The name of the room at the top of the Assets Panel will change, along with the greyed-out status of the various Asset types, as appropriate.
- See also: Exploring an area
All Assets Menu
Right Clicking on All Assets in the Assets Panel will display a Context Menu with the following options:
- Library
- Opens the Asset Library. This is the same as clicking on "Library" in the Transform Toolbar
- Repository
- Opens a File Selector to load an asset from the Repository into the current area (note: This just loads the asset, and does not actually create any instances of the asset)
- Remove Uninstanced Assets
- A special cleanup option, this unloads any assets which do not have current instances in the area
- Select All Instances in Room
- Selects all instances in the Current Room
- Select Duplicates
- Will select all assets with a duplicate position. So if two white boxes are in the exact same location it will select one of them.
Asset Menu
Right Clicking on the name of an Asset in the Assets Panel will display a Context Menu with the following options:
- New Instance
- Creates a new instance of that asset in the current room
- Select All In Room
- Selects all instances of that asset in the current room
- Select All In Area
- Selects all instance of that asset in the current Area
- Remove Asset
- Removes all instances of that asset in the Area
- Replace Selected Instance With This Asset
- Replaces all instances of the right clicked on asset with the currently selected asset
Instances
Clicking on an asset name, will display the instances of that asset which exist in the current room. Note that there may be other instances in the area, in different rooms.
Clicking on an instance number, will select that instance. Your viewpoint will not change, and the instance may be in a completely different part of the area, but its properties will still be displayed in the Properties Panel
To go to a selected instance, choose Go to Position in the Instances Menu.
To select multiple instances, Shift-click
Right Clicking on a menu will bring up the context menu options for an instance which are as follows:
- Clone Instance
- Clones the instance to create a new instance with a new ID
- Remove Instance
- Removes the instance
- Copy Properties
- Copies all of the properties on the selected instance
- Paste Properties
- Pastes the properties that are on the clipboard into the selected instance
- GoTo
- Puts the selected instance into focus of the viewport
- Move To Room
- Moves the selected asset to the chosen room
- Library
- Opens the Asset Library
- Repository
- Opens the Repository
- See also: Duplicated instances
