Can you please provide links to github repositories or YouTube videos to understand how to use DataAssets
Hey @blAddddDe!
Try a few of these tutorials! Also try to read the documentation first so you can connect the documentation to what they’re talking about. 
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I’ve seen this, but I still don’t understand what’s the point of using DataAssets if there are DataTables?
Well, if you’re using a small amount of data, there’s no reason to not use a Data Table!
However, if you’re using a rather large data table, they can take up more and more processing power as it starts at the top and goes one by one when searching. A dataAsset is essentially just a single row of a data table, and instead of using a method of search and return, you can tell it to just use that DataAsset.
It’s essentially a less cumbersome DataTable, limited to a single row, so it takes up less space and less processing power to use. As a frame of reference, I’ve seen a 4000 row data table and it was getting called 10 or so times a minute, and it was causing frame drop when there were multiple calls at the same time. Using DataAssets there would have saved us a lot of grief, though it would have taken a lot of time to change over to DataAssets (they weren’t an option yet).
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You can use multiple data tables to ease the lookup costs. You just need to define an items “Type” or “Subtype” to sort which table to use for lookup.
I have around 150 “Items” spanning 7 base types. The largest group can be subtyped.
e.g. Weapons → subtype [AR, SR, DMR, SMG, LMG, Pistol, Shotgun]
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