Edit Assets

Evergine Studio offers the possibility of editing numerous properties of every asset to fully customize its use in your app. Additionally, every Evergine project defines a set of profiles, allowing you to set different properties per profile.

Note

For example, we can halve the resolution of a texture for the Android or iOS profiles, or set a different PixelFormat.

Contextual Actions

Asset Contextual Menu

You can apply some actions to the assets regardless of their type. Right-click an asset in the Assets Details panel to show a contextual menu with the following actions:

  • Rename the asset.
  • Cut the asset (for cut/paste operation).
  • Copy the asset (for copy/paste operation).
  • Duplicate, which will create an exact copy of the asset but with a different Id.
  • Delete the asset.
  • Set to export as raw, which copies the resource file to the Export Content Folder instead of exporting the compiled version.
  • Open folder location, which opens the File Explorer to the asset's location.
  • Copy path to clipboard, which copies the path of the asset's metafile.
  • Copy id to clipboard.

Assets Editor

To edit an asset:

  1. Click on it in the Assets Details panel.
  2. A new panel specific to that asset will open.

Asset editor

Every Asset Editor panel is different, but some of the most common areas are the following:

  • Asset viewer area
  • Global properties panel
  • Profile properties panel(s)

Asset editor

Viewer Area

Usually, the viewer area of the asset shows a visual representation of the asset. It's also common to have some controls to change the visualization settings. Some examples are:

  • Enabling/disabling texture channels
  • Selecting the Level of Mipmap of a texture
  • Play/Pause a Model animation
  • Setting the geometry where a Material is applied

Global Properties

Usually, the global properties are the ones that apply to all the Project profiles. The next image shows the Render Layer parameters:

Global parameters

Profile Properties

In many assets, there is a Profile Parameters area where users can customize properties per profile. This area usually looks like this:

Profile parameters

This area shows:

  • Profile tabs: Profile tabs This shows the default profile tab and one tab per Project profile, allowing you to switch to a specific profile property panel.
  • Default profile: Profile tabs This sets the profile properties by default when no other profile is specified.
  • Override Default Property: When enabled, this allows the customization of properties for this profile. If disabled, the default profile will be used.
  • Exclude Asset: This property allows an asset not to be exported in a specific profile, making it available only in some profiles.