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Asset Browser Utility 507
At the bottom of the window, there is also a tabbed
favorites bar (page 3–509) (by default, it first
contains a Startup button) and a status bar.
Asset Browser menu bar
Cont ains the menus for the Asset Browser.
File men u
Cont ains commands for managing files.
Prefer ences—Displays the Preferences dialog (page
3–514), with which you can manage the cache
director y and control drag-and-drop operations.
Proper t ies—Displaysinformationaboutthefileof
the selected thumbnail.
Show Image—Displays the currently selected
bitmap thumbnail in a rendered frame window
(page 3–5). You can also double-click a thumbnail.
This does not work for geometry thumbnails.
Pri nt—PrintsthepagedisplayedintheWeb
pane.PrintisavailableonlywhenaWebpageis
displayed.
Exit—Closes the Asset Browser window.
Filter menu
Filtersthedisplayofthumbnailsaccordingtothe
category or file type you select.
All images—Displays thumbnails of all supported
bitmap files, such as BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF, and TGA.
All geometry—Displays thumbnails of all
supported geometry fi les, such as DWG and MAX.
All in cache—Displays thumbnails of all images
stored in your cache director y. When t urned on,
theleftpanedisplayingthedirectorytreegoes
away, and the thumbnails you see might be in
various directories. Because the thumbnails point
to the correct directories, you can still use them to
access the files and display or drag them to areas in
the 3ds Max user interface.
Impor tant: If a file has been subsequently renamed,
deleted, or moved from the directory it was in when
its thumbnail was first created, then the thumbnail
represents only the thumbnail bitmap itself. If you
assign that image to a map slot in the sof t ware, you’ll be
assigning the thumbnail bitmap rather than the original
image.
All f iles (*.*)—
Displays thumbnails for all files.
See the following topics for information on the file
types listed on the Filter menu:
AutoCAD DWG Files (page 3–931)
IGES Files (page 3–954)
AVI Animation File (page 3–609)
BMP Image File (page 3–610)
Kodak Cineon (page 3–610)
CWS (Combustion Workspace) Files (page 3–611)
GIF Image File (page 3–613)
Radiance Image File (HDRI) (page 3–613)
IFL Image File (page 3–616)
JPEG File (page 3–620)
PNG Image File (page 3–628)
Adobe PSD File Reader (page 3–629)
MOV QuickTime File (page 3–621)
MPEG Files (page 3–621)
SGI’s Image File Format (page 3–633)
RLA Image File (page 3–630)
RPF Image File (page 3–631)
Targa Image File (page 3–633)
TIF Image File (page 3–634)
YUV Image File (page 3–635)