Nexrender: Replacing Adobe Illustrator assets

[byumark]

I have a composition of Adobe Illustrator layers. Is there a way to replace the Adobe Illustrator asset once and have it trickle down to all the layers or do I need to replace each layer individually?

[inlife]

Hello @byumark

Honestly, never had any experience with anything like this, so hopefully, somebody from the community will be able to help you out on that one.

[JamesBotterill]

I'm not sure this is possible from my research, I have to export each layer out as a png then update those in my project

[hdngr]

This seems to work - treating .ai file like any other image asset. I have not yet explored what nexrender is doing under the hood, why it works would be a good question for @inlife.

{
    "template": {
        "src": "file:///templates/test.aep",
        "composition": "Render Comp"
    },
    "assets": [
        {
            "src": "file:///assets/Envato Logo.ai",
            "type": "image",
            "layerName": "Envato Logo.ai"
        }
    ],
    "actions": {...}
}