Using Picklists
Table of contents
Introduction
Picklists are a convenient way to group assets for later use in chameleon; many automation features use one or more picklists as their input.
Picklists are saved from the results of an asset search in the picklist editor. Once a search result has been named and saved as a picklist it is added to the list of picklists associated with this installation of chameleon and remains available for use in any scenario until it is removed.
Search results may contain assets of any type (Actor, Item or Vehicle) however if a picklist is to be used with a generator, it must contain only one type of asset. It is up to the user to ensure this is true.
Features
(Fig.1) Picklist Sidebar Menu
- Picklist menu item
- Picklist Menu
- Create Picklist
- Picklists - all the picklists available for your scenario
- Spawn from picklist - chooses an asset randomly from the picklist; clicking in the scene will place the chosen asset
- Picklist Listing
- Picklist Title/Select - The title also acts a a select button to be used to spawn an asset from the list
- Edit picklist - opens picklist editor
- Delete picklist
(Fig.2) Create Picklist
- General
- Filter conditions
- Reset filters
- add new filter
- Search results
- Close picklist editor
- Add all search assets - adds all the current search results to the picklist assets (that meets the picklist rules)
- Picklist name
- Current picklist contents
- Remove all assets - removes all the assets from the picklist
- Save picklist
- Search Conditions
- Search target
- Select condition
- Available search targets
- category
- sub category
- element type
- tags
- Example target conditions
- by element type
- by category
- Additional Search term
- Term combination options
User Guide
- Create a picklist : click the create picklist button on the sidebar menu to open the picklist editor.
- Give the picklist a name in the Title window
- Set the search conditions: The search function operates on all assets available to this installation of chameleon and allows you to filter by category, subcategory, element type and tags. Search terms can be combined by adding a new condition and setting the combination option.
- Once the search results appear, clicking on an asset in the results window will add it to the list; clicking on an asset in the picklist will remove it.
- Save the list and close the editor.