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• kAssetContextLiveGroup.

• kAssetContextImage.

• kAssetContextLookFile.

• kAssetContextLookFileMgrSettings.

• kAssetContextAlembic.

• kAssetContextScenegraphXml.

• kAssetContextCastingSheet.

• kAssetContextAttributeFile.

• kAssetContextFCurveFile.

• kAssetContextGafferRig.

• kAssetContextScenegraphBookmarks.

• kAssetContextShader.

• kAssetContextCatalog.

• kAssetContextFarm.

A constant to hold the relationship between assets has been added. This constant is used when the

getRelatedAssetId() function is called:

• kAssetRelationArgsFile.

Accessing an Asset

The resolveAsset() method must be implemented in order for Katana to gain access to the asset itself.

It takes an Asset ID as its first argument and returns a string containing a file path to the asset. This handle is a path

to a file which can be read from and written to.

NOTE: An Asset plug-in must not attempt to use any NodegraphAPI, user interface, or callback

modules when resolving an Asset ID. This is because Asset ID resolution occurs at render time, when these

modules are not available. Reading from the Scene Graph while writing to it will result in undefined

behavior.

Additional Methods

In addition to the core methods that need to be implemented by an Asset plug-in there are additional methods,

many of which are variants.

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