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Changes in the gallery

Activate “show similar assets”

The activate the “show similar assets” feature - simply click the button “update database” and follow the instructions.

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Changes in the settings

The following parts need to be adjusted in the settings.

Naming convention for additional files

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Set template mapping for additional files

Done, that’s all that needs to be changed!

Now let’s dive a little bit deeper what these changes actually do.

File Path definitions

You need to tell the software where to stored the additional files for an element on disk. The additional files are extra files like the different textures channels (diffuse, normal, bump, etc.), render layers or maybe an extra PDF.

For the additional files there are two specific Path Values. These can be used in the file path definition to for example store the additional files in separate folders.

The definiton can look something like this example below:

File path definitons

Path Patterns

You get a warning if the file path definition is missing. A warning icon and red box around missing values.

Template mapping for additional files

You need to update all Template Mappings. We need to tell the software how to process additional files. In most cases it will most likely be the same as the main template, if the main template is a copy task.

To learn more read here about Additional files

Show similar elements

The activate the “show similar assets” feature - simply click the button “update database”

A dialog will appear. Click the button “start update” and wait until the software is done processing. This might take a while depending on the amount of elements in your library.