Virtual Assets

This page explains the concept of virtual assets.

Virtual Assets are designed to manage various kind of digital assets including images, videos, audios etc. Please see the full list of asset types here.

Let's say you are building a website and your website lots of virtual assets like logo, hero image, banners, videos, etc. Typical way to store all of your assets either with the project folder or on cloud storage. Once you store, you will have to refer them in your code. You may encounter one of the issues based on your approach -

• The duplication of your assets whenever you create new environment

• Whenever you have new version of the asset, either you have to change the file name of the new version to ensure your code can refer or you need to update your code to refer new file name

Nestor have addressed all above challenges regarding versions duplications and file names. Asset versions comprises two major components -

• Virtual Asset Definition

• Versions

Virtual Asset Structure

The advantage of this structure is that there is no need to provide the asset basic information every time you add new version.

Nestor also supports empty virtual asset without any physical files. This is very useful at the start of the project where you have the idea of your virtual assets but you are still waiting for the actual file. You can just create definition and can upload the physical file later.

Examples of Virtual Assets

• Logo of website/app/games

• Hero image on the website/app

• A video

• FAQ section as JSON data

• 3 D models on your website

• Game asset

Nestor has no restriction on the file format of virtual asset. In principal, you can store any type of file with Nestor.