Asset Categories
Last updated: August 21, 2026
The Vault sorts by what a file is, not by what it depicts, which is the right choice for a repository people arrive at with a technical need. Each category lives at its own route — /category/images, /category/videos, /category/audio, /category/documents, /category/archives — and the search surface cuts across all five when you know a name rather than a type.
The five categories
Images — artwork, covers, banners, icons, textures and visual exports. The largest category and the one most often hot-linked.
Videos — trailers, lore clips, motion assets and showcase media. Heavier files; consider what you are embedding into.
Audio — music, ambience, voice and sound effects. Note that this is material for use, not the listening experience: that is the Radio Network.
Documents — PDFs, references, readable exports and production notes. The category press and researchers usually want.
Archives — packages, source bundles, downloadable kits and compressed files. Where a set arrives as one download.
Choosing between a category and a kit
Categories are for finding a specific file. Graphic Kits are for when you need a coherent set — a logo in its variants, a press collection — and assembling that yourself from individual assets tends to produce mismatched versions.
Searching
Search covers the catalogue and is the fastest route when you know the subject. Browsing by category is better when you know the format and want to see what exists.
Category contents change as material is published. The routes are stable; what is inside them is only accurate on the live Vault.
Official source
Canonical source for this subject: Search & Browse Assets — Asset Vault. Checked 21 August 2026 — where this guide and the live service disagree, the service is right.
Related reading
- Graphic Kits — Bundled press and graphic collections, and when to prefer one over individual files.
- Hotlinking and Embedding Assets — How to reference Vault files directly from your own pages and code.
- Catalogue, Branches and Navigation — The route patterns behind the archive and the fastest way to reach a piece of media.