Sharing Content among Workgroup

For corporate and studio users, you can install all content packs in a corporate server and share them across teams, saving significant hard drive space on each workstation in a workgroup. Team members, on the other hand, can also share their content creations by storing them on a network drive. In this way, you can consolidate purchased assets and your own creations in a central location, efficiently download, view, search, organize assets via the Content Manager and greatly accelerate your production.


* These computers in the workgroup must have either iClone or Character Creator installed with purchased seats under the same account.

ClosedSharing Template Contents in Workgroup

By utilizing the Multiple Drive feature, you can share installed contents with team members in a workgroup.

  1. The administrator of the source computer sets the hard disk as the Network Disk (for example, K:\cnt) with the authorization as read and write for the administrator and read only for the users.
  2. Install all templates on the network disk of the source computer.
  3. On the client computer, execute the Sync Installed Assets... from the Content Manager Menu.
  4. On the Sync Installed Assets panel, choose the Specific Path radio button and set it to the network drive.
  5. Click the Start button; then the client computer can access and use the templates on the source computer after the synching process is done.
  6. Repeat the same steps from 4 to 6 for the rest of the client computers on the intranet in order to access templates on the source computer too.
  7. The installed contents will be retrieved and displayed like installed contents on the client computers.
  8. Team members can now access the contents on their own computers.
ClosedSharing Custom Contents in Workgroup

For sharing the custom contents among machines on an intranet, you can use the Multiple Drive feature. DRM authorization behaves the same across all computers in a workgroup using the same account.

  1. On the source computer, click the Content Manger Menu and choose the Settings command.
  2. The Settings panel will show with the default custom folder for saving your contents.
  3. Click the adjacent + button to add a custom folder. A message will appear saying that a Reallusion Custom folder will be created in your target directory. Click the OK button.
  4. Pick a folder on the network drive as the destination (in this case, Share). Click the Select Folder button.
  5. A message will appear saying that you can disable the Auto-sync custom folder checkbox to prevent conflicts with multiple operators. Click the OK button.
  6. The folder name and folder path will show in the list. Rename the folder to Member Share in this case. Click the OK button.


    * You can keep the Auto-sync custom folder checkbox enabled if performance is not an issue.
  7. Pick the custom folder on the network drive from the drop-down list. Save contents or import contents to this folder.
  8. On another computer in the workgroup, click the Content Manager Menu and choose the Settings command.
  9. Repeat the same steps from 2 to 6 to add the custom folder on the network drive.
  10. Pick the custom folder on the network drive from the drop-down list.
  11. As you can see, the custom contents, stored on the network drive, appear inside.
  12. You can now use the custom contents shared by the member.