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A file browser appears.
4 Navigate to Getting Started/Assets/sourceimages/xpm and select
fire_truck_icon.xpm.
5 Click Open.
The image changes to a small fire truck icon.
Setting Black Box mode
Although Views encourage certain users to only modify certain attributes, it
is still possible for a user to inadvertently access and change attributes that
they shouldnt. To greatly increase the integrity of your asset, you can set it
to Black Box mode.
When Black Box mode is turned on, users can only see the container itself
and all of its published attributes and published nodes. A user cannot open a
container in the Outliner, Hypergraph, or other editors, to view the
unpublished attributes and unpublished nodes inside. An additional benefit
of this is that it greatly decreases the complexity of scenes in editors since it
reduces entire trees of objects to a single object.
To turn on Black Box mode
1 In the Outliner, select Fire_truck_CNT.
2 In the Attribute Editor, in the Container Attributes section, turn on Black
Box.
Now if you look at the Outliner, the expand icon next to Fire_truck_CNT has
disappeared. If you try clicking it, Maya does not allow you to expand it to
see its children.
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