Third Party Assets

If a Gallery movie contains third party user assets (by the method of Linked URL), you'll see an orange "clapboard" symbol in its listing. When you click on the thumbnail of such movie, before the actual download started, a "Third Party Assets" alert will come up to warn you about the nature and contents of such movie. This screen will list all the third party assets contained in the movie, their originating URL(s) and the size of the total download. This information is provided as a courtesy to help you decide whether these remote assets should be downloaded with the respective movie. (See below to understand where and how these assets are to be stored and handled in your system.)

Note that the definition of "third party" asset is that of any asset that is not originated from Comixware application itself. While media files (jpg, gif, mov, avi and etc) are usually save for download, Yi.magination does not endorse or oppose for downloading of such assets. You take full responsibility for your own action.


How Third Party Assets are Handled

If you answer "NO" to the download of Third Party Assets, Comixware will download the movie WITHOUT its third party assets. And missing asset placeholder(s) will be stood in at the place(s) of such assets. See Missing Asset Placeholder to learn the behavior of movie with missing assets.

If you answer "YES" to the download of Third Party Assets, Comixware will download such assets into your system's Internet cache (where your web surfing files are normally being stored) and make a temporary linkage to them. So that once the download is completed, these assets will show up in your "user" Asset bin (and/or Music Panel) and are immediately available for your use. Please note that these linked assets behave just like any other temporary Internet file (html, jpg, gif, swf and etc) you download everyday when surfing the web, they are usually save but are just "temporary" files. That is: you can play them, compose them or even re-post them any way you want, as long as you are in the same Comixware session. But unless you save them into your "user" folder before exiting the program, these files will not be there the next time you launch Comixware. For saving linked assets please read Save section.