Asset types

An asset type is an entity of the platform that the asset system supports for the asset import. For example, all directories of the Windows platform can constitute to be the assets. You can categorize the assets into a single category of an asset type called Windows directory.

By default, the asset system supports certain entities of the predefined platforms as asset types. You can perform the asset import operation with the predefined asset types without any customization.

See Predefined asset types.

The asset system does not support certain entities of the predefined platforms by default. But, the asset system makes these entities available for customization to create custom asset types. The asset types that are created from these entities that are not supported by default are probable asset types.

See Probable asset types.

The asset system lets you create an entirely new platform and define the entity that the new platform supports. You can use these newly created entity and create a new asset type that is based on the custom entity. The asset types that are created from the custom platform and custom entities are custom asset types.

See Custom asset types.