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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.

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:

CODE
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

Pull

Force pull

Hard reset & pull

When to use

To get the latest changes another machine has pushed

When the server has changed, but your local data should be kept

When the server has changed, but you don’t care about your local data

What gets pulled

all changes since your last pull

the current remote state (ignores changelog)

the current remote state (ignores changelog)

Remote →

Local

new/edited

deleted/does not exist

the remote file is added

the remote file is added

the remote file is added

new/edited

edited

If the file differs

  • the local file is renamed to -pxconflict

  • the remote file is added

If the files are the same, the local file is kept

If the file differs

  • the local file is renamed to -pxconflict

  • the remote file is added

If the files are the same, the local file is kept

the local file is overwritten

edited

exists (no changes)

the local file is overwritten

If the file differs

  • the local file is renamed to -pxconflict

  • the remote file is added

If the files are the same, the local file is kept

the local file is overwritten

deleted

exists (no changes)

the local file is deleted

the local file is kept

the local file is deleted

deleted

edited

the local file is kept

the local file is kept

the local file is deleted

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