Assets

An asset is something your map uses: a 3D model, a voice, a block of text. Components point at assets, and many entities (anything placed in your map) can use the same one. One lore can feed three robots; one model can appear a hundred times.

Asset types

Type	What it is	You make it
Model	A 3D shape, like a wall, a lamp or a pizza slice.	no
Prefab	A ready-made entity with its settings filled in, like a robot.	no
Robot part	One body part for building a robot, like an arm or a hat.	no
Material	A colour for a robot's plastic or outer metal.	no
Voiceset	A voice a robot speaks with.	no
Lore	A block of text about one subject.	yes
Lore collection	A list of lore, so you can attach several at once.	yes
Personality	A robot's bio, what it knows, and examples of how it talks.	yes
Scene	One place in your map. A map can have several.	yes

The ones you don't make come with the editor, ready to use.

What comes with the editor

The built-in assets come in three packages. Each asset's name starts with its package, like @robotopia/citykitfloor16x16.

Package	Contents
builtin	The three robot prefabs — Robot, Copbot, MuniciPal Robot — and the empty model.
robotopia	296 models (the city and sewer kits, street pieces, props, copbot) and 25 voicesets.
robotopia-parts	220 robot parts for Humanoid Body Parts, and 18 materials: 11 plastics and 7 metals.

Put an asset in your scene

The library in the left sidebar lists every asset but the robot parts, and models and prefabs are the two types that go straight into a scene. Drag one in — a preview follows your cursor and snaps to the grid — and you get a new entity with a Transform, plus whatever the asset brings: an Appearance for a model, the whole arrangement for a prefab.

You can also press + at the top of Scene Objects to pick a model or prefab from a list.

Other assets, like voices and lore, go into a setting instead. Click an asset setting in the Inspector and a list opens with only the assets that fit. The Agent's Voice setting, for example, only offers voicesets.

Make your own

Use + (Create) in the header to author lore, lore collections and personalities. They're saved in your map, and any setting that takes them can use them. To add another scene, click the arrow on the scene button in the header, then New scene.

To see everything your map uses, press the Asset library button in the header.

You can't upload your own 3D models, sounds or pictures yet. Import a file on the start screen opens whole maps (.roboworld, .json, .json.gz), not single assets. See what's not possible yet.

Picking from the packs

• Start a building on citykitfloor16x16, the big floor plate, then fill in with street pieces.
• The env_city_* pieces are for building rooms and buildings: walls, floors, ceilings, roofs, stairs, railings and lights.
• copbot is a single baked mesh, so it will not recolour. Place the Copbot prefab and you get the right wiring for free.
• Voicesets are worth browsing rather than guessing at. The aws-* ones are the general-purpose voices, copbot-voice* suit patrol bots, and the rest are characters — mac-grandma, thorsten-german, norman and seven more.