Saving to a custom gallery

[Utopiah]

As mentioned in icosa-foundation/icosa-gallery#73 I'm interesting in offline hosting of a Poly gallery.

Is it already possible to save to a custom gallery and if so how?

If now, can it be considered? I can imagine a very interesting workflow during workshops or events where one is creating content, in VR, and another is relying on those models, to create also content in VR, picking objects for the local 3D gallery. Even a single person workflow would still benefit from this, going back and forth between creating assets then building scenes based on them without passing files around but rather URLs.

[andybak]

Yes - in theory you can already run a local instance using the docker-compose approach described in the readme. We just need to fix a few rough edges and do better testing and docs. My colleague is away for a couple of weeks and he knows the deployment side better than me but I can probably help to some degree. If you're not in a rush then it will be easier to wait until we've got things straightened out a bit.

[Utopiah]

Thanks for the clarification. No rush it can wait few more weeks, especially as the standalone client (e.g Quest support) isn't out for the moment.

[andybak]

@k-lara we should document this. I assume it's as follows:

OpenBlocks.cfg in your Documents/Blocks folder

{
"GalleryUrl": "https://api.yourserver.com"
}

[k-lara]

Yes, that's correct!

[Utopiah]

Thanks for the clarification, in this on the 0.4.6 build because I can't find the file.

eureka:/sdcard $ find | grep Blocks                                                                                                                                                             
./Download/OpenBlocks_Quest_0.4.6.apk
./Blocks
./Blocks/Models
./Blocks/Models/ghalyy
./Blocks/Models/ghalyy/model-triangulated.obj
./Blocks/Models/ghalyy/materials.mtl
./Blocks/Models/ghalyy/model.blocks
./Blocks/Models/ghalyy/model.obj
./Blocks/Models/ghalyy/thumbnail.png
./Blocks/Models/Autosave
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-29
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-29/model.blocks
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-29/materials.mtl
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-29/model.obj
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-28
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-28/model.obj
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-28/model.blocks
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-28/materials.mtl
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-24
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-24/materials.mtl
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-24/model.obj
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-24/model.blocks
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-55
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-55/model.blocks
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-55/model.obj
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-55/materials.mtl
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-26
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-26/model.obj
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-26/model.blocks
./Blocks/Models/Autosave/Autosave_2025-06-02_13-33-26/materials.mtl
./Blocks/OfflineModels
./Blocks/OfflineModels/ghalyy
./Blocks/OfflineModels/ghalyy/model.obj
./Blocks/OfflineModels/ghalyy/model.blocks
./Blocks/OfflineModels/ghalyy/materials.mtl
./Blocks/OfflineModels/ghalyy/thumbnail.png
./Blocks/OfflineModels/ghalyy/model-triangulated.obj

Should I create it?

[k-lara]

It should get created when you don't have one and you start Open Blocks.

[andybak]

Thanks for the clarification, in this on the 0.4.6 build because I can't find the file.

It's in 0.4.7

[Utopiah]

Found in 0.4.21 so I should setup the backend first then try again.