Terragen Preferences - Asset Search Folders Panel
The Asset Search Folders panel allows you to configure where Terragen looks for items like object files and image files when it's trying to find resources and assets for a project.
Asset Search folders are folders which Terragen will search when looking for project assets. If Terragen cannot find an asset for a project at the location specified by a node it will first look for a file with the same name in the project folder. If it still can't find the asset it will look in any folder specified as an Asset Search folder. As an example of how Asset Search folders are searched let's say a node is looking for a file specified with this relative path:
Big Tree Model/leaf.tif
The first step in the search is to look for that relative path in the Asset Search folder (called "My Content" in this case), like this:
My Content/Big Tree Model/leaf.tif
The next step is to search for the file name in the Asset Search folder:
My Content/leaf.tif
The final step is to search through any of the folders inside the Asset Search folder to find a file called "leaf.tif".
Settings:
- List: This list displays all the names of the folders that have been chosen as Asset Search folders. Terragen searches all of these folders when it is trying to locate external project content. You can double click a list item to display the folder's full path, and you can delete items using the Delete key.
- Add Folder...: Clicking this button opens a Choose Folder dialog which allows you to choose a new folder to be added as a Asset Search folder.
- Change Folder: Clicking this button opens a Choose Folder dialog which allows you to choose a new folder to be added as a Asset Search folder.
- Reveal Folder: Clicking this button reveals the folder that is currently selected in the Asset Search Folders list in Explorer (Windows) or the Finder (Mac).
