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Asset metadata is what turns a regular data-block into an asset. It is a small data-structure, but a key part of the technical design of the asset system. The design foresees that asset data-blocks store an `ID.asset_data` pointer of type `AssetMetaData`. This data **must not** have dependencies on other data-blocks or data-block data, it must be an independent unit. That way we can read asset-metadata from .blends without reading anything else from the file. The Asset Browser will use this metadata (together with the data-block name, preview and file path) to represent assets in the file list. Includes: * New `ID.asset_data` for asset metadata. * Asset tags, description and custom properties. * BKE code to manage asset meta-data and asset tags. * Code to read asset data from files, without reading IDs. * RNA for asset metadata (including tags) Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1 project milestone on developer.blender.org. Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9716 Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne, Brecht Van Lommel
.. Keep this document short & concise, linking to external resources instead of including content in-line. See 'release/text/readme.html' for the end user read-me. Blender ======= Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline-modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking and video editing. .. figure:: https://code.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/springrg.jpg :scale: 50 % :align: center Project Pages ------------- - `Main Website <http://www.blender.org>`__ - `Reference Manual <https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/index.html>`__ - `User Community <https://www.blender.org/community/>`__ Development ----------- - `Build Instructions <https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender>`__ - `Code Review & Bug Tracker <https://developer.blender.org>`__ - `Developer Forum <https://devtalk.blender.org>`__ - `Developer Documentation <https://wiki.blender.org>`__ License ------- Blender as a whole is licensed under the GNU Public License, Version 3. Individual files may have a different, but compatible license. See `blender.org/about/license <https://www.blender.org/about/license>`__ for details.