Maya Assets enable complex data to be effectively organized, shared, referenced, and presented to a variety of users in the most appropriate form. Assets allow artists and Technical Directors to encapsulate a set of nodes into a container so that they may be treated from a user’s perspective as if they were a single node; selected attributes of interest from the contained nodes can be published to the container. The capability to group nodes into containers existed previously in a limited form but has been dramatically expanded to include additional creation and publishing options, a container-centric outliner view and a number of Hypergraph improvements to container drawing.
