Sync and Downloading assets
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To sync the asset previews press the Sync Assets button in the asset browser toolbar. This menu will only show up if you have UniBlend_Demo or Premium selected. While syncing: -A status text will appear showing what stage of the sync is processing. -Fetching assets.., comparing assets...,handle deprecated assets.., sync complete Fetching assets: This means the add-on is getting a list of available assets and their data from the server.
Comparing assets: This means the add-on is comparing the local assets against the Server assets to determine if any asset is missing or has been updated.
Handling deprecated assets: This means the add-on is either removing or moving assets that are no longer on our server because. they either had issues, had a name change or no longer exist for other reasons. By default it moves those assets to a library called BU_AssetLibrary_Deprecated. You can change this behavior in the add-on settings under Asset Library sync behavior Next to to status text a progress bar will be shown showing the total progress of whats currently downloading.
To cancel the syncing process press the Cancel sync button. Please remember that cancelling a sync will execute after the current process is done and will exit out of the sync after that process is done. Cancelling during comparing assets will finish the comparing of assets but will stop after and now continue downloading.
During the sync process the the add-on will do two additional things.
Both will be handled depending on the settings you have chosen for them in the preferences read asset browser settings
Check for any deprecated asset
Check for asset updates
To download the original version of an asset select the asset and press Download Original You can select up to 5 assets at a time. Alternatively you can select assets and press right click> Download Original.
For original assets the name file-size and progress will be shown in the 3d view-port in addition to the total progress bar on the title bar of the asset browser.
After the download is complete the asset browser will refresh
To remove an asset from your local machine. Select the assets you want to remove. Then right-click and click on Remove from library. After a new sync the preview asset will be re-downloaded.
As visible in the above image the Catalog file does not show up the first time you sync the library if this happens reopen blender and the catalogs should be visible. A possible workaround is being implemented and tested.
