Hats - Workspaces and Teams

BlackBox integrates with Hats - Workspaces and Teams.

When you have both tools installed, you can make it so some Prefabs can only be edited by certain Hats teams. This reinforces areas of ownership, and can prevent edits on key Prefabs.

A Prefab that can be edited by Artists and Programmers, but not Producers

As a general rule of thumb, we suggest only locking a few key Prefabs out, and leaving most of them editable by the whole team/studio.

How to specify teams

To use this feature, you first need to setup different teams in Hats. This is described in Hats' Teams documentation.

Once you have one or more teams, simply open a Prefab that has a BlackBox in Prefab mode. A property called Allow Editing From should be visible just before the Reveal Lists (see screenshot above).

Using this dropdown, specify the teams that can edit the Prefab.

If you are part of a team and you deselect it from this dropdown, you will lock yourself out of the Prefab. To be able to edit the Prefab again, either revert the Prefab using version control, or change team temporarily and edit the Prefab again.