Methods for obtaining and distributing auxiliary content assets for an interactive environment and a client device and server that may implement such methods are disclosed. The client device displays a scene of a portion of the simulated environment from a camera point of view (camera POV) on a video display. The client device generates a pre-hint vector based on position of the camera POV, sends the vector to a server and receives auxiliary content information from the server. The server receives the pre-hint vector, determines the future field from the pre-hint vector, identifies one or more auxiliary content targets within the potential future field of view, and sends auxiliary content information for the identified targets to the client device.