importing assets into Blender

>> This video covers how to import
assets into your blender file.

So if you download files from, say, a
place like Poly Haven or another website

where it allows you to download files, you may
get a blender file with it, but you may not.

It may just be an object with
textures and things on it.

So be aware of that.

If you are able to get a blender
file, there are different ways

that you can bring it into your scene.

One is by just downloading the file, say,
from Poly Haven or if you're doing TurboSquid,

other sites like that often have a
blender file that you can download.

So if you're using a blender file, then, once
it's downloaded, you just go it File, Open,

and I'm going to double click
on my painted wooden chair.

And go into texture mode, and there's the chair.

So that works great.

But what if I wanted to add other
things that I downloaded into the scene?

The other way that you can do that
is -- I'll make a new general scene.

And I'm just going to make a cube here.

And so say I wanted to bring the chair
into this scene that's already in progress.

I can't just open it.

Instead I have to go to File and Append.

And I'll go to the desktop and
find the painted wooden chair.

And I double click on the blender file.

So if we look at this, there's the blend file.

And then I go to Mesh, and
I double click on Chair OO1.

And I'll bring this up here.

And like magic, it comes into your scene, and it
even has all of the textures associated with it.

This doesn't always work.

If you have a blender file, it's properly
packed and all of the textures are

in the right place, then this works.

If you find that this doesn't work, then you may
have to open up the blend file and then add it

as an asset and then add
it to your asset library.

There's a separate video for that.

So if you are interested in
learning more about how to set

up the asset library, please
check out that video.

Another thing you may want do is
just import a single part of a file.

So say you wanted to just import
a material from another file.

So if I wanted to, say, get a wood material
from one of the previous assignments,

I would just simply go to File,
Append, and then I go to my desktop.

I'm going to look in the intro assignments here.

I'll just go to the top here and open
up the blend file and go to material.

And now I can see all the materials
that are used in the scene.

And say I just want to get
like the wall wood material.

So I'll double click that.

And now, when I look over here under material,
I can see I have wall wood that is available.

So if I select this object
and I assign wall wood to it,

then I have that material
that came from another scene.

So that can also be very useful.

If you're going to be using
things over and over again,

I highly recommend using the asset
browser and setting up a library.

So that, once you have an object and you're
like, oh, I want not just one chair, but,

you know, I want to have a bunch of chairs,

you can duplicate chairs,
you know, that's no problem.

But if you want to have a sort of drag-and-drop
way of bringing things into a scene and then

if you have another different scene
where you want to use the same assets,

instead of having to reimport then over again,

you can just use the asset
browser to bring them in.

So, and that's covered in a separate video.