Pixotope Asset Hub

The Asset Hub service is a shared data storage with support for synchronizing data across connected machines.

Characteristics

• support for storing and transferring large files

• mechanism to mitigate data redundancy

• ability to restart (continue) failed data transfers

Setup

• The Asset Hub service runs on every machine

• The Asset Hub cache lives on the server machine. It holds

  • the cache of the files

    • File data is split into chunks of 8MB and stored in the Asset Hub cache on the server machine.

  • the changelog

Learn more about how to Sync projects and other files in Synced Storage

Synced folders

Synced Storage

The Asset Hub is a shared data storage service that automatically synchronizes content in ...\Pixotope\Synced Storage between connected machines.

Learn more about how to change the Synced Storage folder location

Synced Storage contains 3 sub folders

• Projects for your project folders/files (levels, maps, .uproject)

• Common for any other files you want to sync across machines

• Internal which stores metadata for the Asset Hub service

The Internal folder is essential, and must not be edited or deleted!

The Synced Storage folder lives outside the installation folder and its path can currently not be changed.

For projects to be selectable when creating a show, they need to reside in the root directory of the Projects folder. Learn more about how to Create, open and manage shows

Synced config

The Asset Hub also synchronizes important configuration files that need to be shared for setup, like lens files and XR calibration files, in ...\Pixotope\[Version number]\Synced Config.

It contains 2 sub folders

• Lens files stores the default lens files with each installation, to use in the Camera tracking panel

• Pixotope XR Calibration for custom calibrated LUTs generated in the Color matching panel

The Synced Config folder lives inside the installation folder and is for internal use. Do not touch!

Ignored files/folders

By default, the following folders are ignored:

DerivedDataCache/
Intermediate/
Saved/

To create your own list of what files/folders to ignore

1. Create a .pxignore file in your projects or common folder
   for a project: Synced Storage/Projects/[Project folder]/.pxignore
   for Common: Synced Storage/Common/.pxignore

2. Add the files and folders to ignore based on the following pattern

.pxignore pattern

• One rule per line

• Empty lines are permitted and are ignored

• Lines starting with # are considered a comment and are ignored

• Lines starting with ! negate the following ignore rule

  • This rule takes precedence

• Behaves like Unix shell patterns, more or less the same as .gitignore

  • Examples:

    • Temp - Ignore file or directory <Workspace>/Temp

    • Temp/ - Ignore directory <Workspace>/Temp

    • **/Temp - Ignore file/directory Temp anywhere in workspace tree

    • **/*.{obj,tmp} - Ignore file/directory with extension .obj or .tmp anywhere in workspace tree

    • !Temp/*.txt - Do not ignore file/directory with extension .txt in folder Temp, even when other such assets are ignored

For more information about supported patterns, see the glob library → https://www.npmjs.com/package/glob

• Ignore files in subdirectories are not taken into consideration

• In case there are any non-ASCII characters, the file must be encoded in UTF-8

Differences between Pull, Force pull and Hard reset & pull