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Then I do the same for the outliner so that it gets more screen space. After that I hover my mouse between the 3D viewport and the shader editor to enlarge the area for both the file browser and the 3D viewport.

I call mine, 'Asset management'.Ĭhange the 3D viewport shading to solid so that Blender doesn't have to load textures every time we switch to this workspace. The shading workspace is close to how we want the interface setup.ĭouble click on the new workspace name to rename it. Click the plus icon to the right of the right most workspace in Blenders header. How to setup Blender for asset management? From there we will look at the features that allow us to manage assets in Blender without asset management add-ons. We will start by setting up a workspace in Blender and the library. Related content: How to use the asset browser in Blender The real challenge is to store your assets in a consistent way.įor a guide on how to use the asset brwoser in Blender 3.0 and later you can check out this article: Thumbnails for Blend files are generated automatically and there are plenty of shortcuts and filters to help finding what you need quickly. We can do asset management in Blenders file browser easily using drag-and-drop to append or link files. In this article I will show you how you can manage all this on a local or shared hard drive without add-ons in Blender. Everything from textures to 3D models, hdri images and reference material just to name the most common. We have several types of assets to manage in Blender.

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