[Feature request]: Allow multiple thumbnail / assets paths

[Briancbn]

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Description

It seems that right now the thumbnails only allow 1 path. Allowing more paths should help with third-party or creating custom thumbnails that can be maintained in another repo, or for customer sensitive thumbnails.

I think this will be helpful especially I want to upload the demo I did here a long time ago with custom assets to be available instead of upload a lot of extra picture here, those assets are quite specific to the demo and might not be relevant to the use case that other people is using traffic editor for.

Implementation Considerations

I suggest something like

path1:path2

which is similar to a $PATH
or add in an add button to add in multiple lines of input to add in more path.

Alternatives

No response

Additional information

If this feature is something that the maintainer also thinks is useful. I would gladly help to make a Pull Request.

[Yadunund]

I understand the need to support thumbnails for assets not only in rmf_traffic_editor_assets but one simple solution is to simlink your custom resource folder to the thumbnails folder that rmf_traffic_editor looksup.

or add in an add button to add in multiple lines of input to add in more path.

In this approach, we also need to support functionality to remove or edit one of multiple paths. At this point we would require a GUI like the Path Manger in Windows which allows users to CRUD multiple directories to $PATH.
If you're willing to contribute such a feature, we are happy to review the PR.

Ideally, all models are hosted on Fuel with thumbnails uploaded and we implement some mechanism to preview thumbnails of assets on Fuel. Something like this was already implemented by @luca-della-vedova in our rmf_site project.

[luca-della-vedova]

Yap to add on to @Yadunund's comment I expect most upcoming feature development to happen on the rmf_site codebase, happy to review PRs here but probably won't have bandwidth to contribute major features anytime soon

[Briancbn]

Ideally, all models are hosted on Fuel with thumbnails uploaded and we implement some mechanism to preview thumbnails of assets on Fuel. Something like this was already implemented by @luca-della-vedova in our rmf_site project.

Good to hear the process on rmf_site! Is there a PR I can reference for this feature?

[Yadunund]

Ideally, all models are hosted on Fuel with thumbnails uploaded and we implement some mechanism to preview thumbnails of assets on Fuel. Something like this was already implemented by @luca-della-vedova in our rmf_site project.

Good to hear the process on rmf_site! Is there a PR I can reference for this feature?

Yes, the PR is linked in the original comment.