Smart Folder Object

A smart folder contains the content of an external 3D file. For example you've created a model of a house in a CAD app. Now you want to render the house with Cheetah3D. If you just import the house into Cheetah3D it could become quite tricky if you want to make some small changes to the house in your CAD app. The solution is the Smart Folder. A Smart Folder links the external 3D file to a the Cheetah3D scene without importing it. If the external 3D file changes Cheetah3D automatically updates the content of the smart folder. So you can still modify the external 3D file and still have the latest version of your model in Cheetah3D.

You can even change material properties of the external file within Cheetah3D. As long as you don't change the material names in the external 3D file these material properties will be maintained.

Tip: Double clicking a Smart Folder in the object browser converts the Smart Folder to an ordinary Folder object.

Attention:

  1. Don't make changes to the objects within a smart folder. These changes won't be saved and get lost once the Smart Folder updates.
  2. Don't use .jas files which contain take based animation data. Smart folder are currently just intended to bind in static objects.

Properties

  • external file: Path to the external 3D file.