Load Prefab Position

[tjheldna]

This is an optimisation to opening prefabs as I see it, you may not agree with me so do with this as you want. I'm just starting to get more picky now, as It's getting increasingly harder to find bugs =).

 

When you open up a prefab using File->Load, the prefab in the world is where ever it was when you created it. i.e

• I save the model in the original scene at x = 30.0, y = 1.0, z = 23.0
  

• If you open up the prefab file you created, the models will be positioned at that location above.
  

• I guess I would expect it all centered when I go to edit it at 0.0, 0.0, 0.0.
  

 

Cheers!

[YouGroove]

Yes there is bugs with prebabs : alignment and duplicate problems also.

 

But like you said, less bugs, what is good

[Einlander]

That annoys me too. All the models packs I made I had to position them at 0,0,0 before I save a prefab. Don't get me started with using a csg as a shape mesh, they don't perfectly align when you do that.

[AggrorJorn]

Sometimes it can be useful to have the original position but in most cases it isn't it. An extra parameter for the Load command would suffice:

Load("path", bool useOriginPosition)

[Einlander]

Or in the settings, or at save time it asks to zero the origin

[YouGroove]

Sometimes it can be useful to have the original position but in most cases it isn't it. An extra parameter for the Load command would suffice:

Load("path", bool useOriginPosition)

 

 

I got that case , and i would need the prefab to instanciate at original world offset position instead of having the prefab centered at position 0,0,0 as it is today. The main use is for using different 3D tiles and their management by code.

[tjheldna]

You can load prefab like you can a world so open it up and position it that way.

[YouGroove]

I was talking about the offset we could need to keep.

 

If i have in Blender a sphere model positionned at 10,10,10

I would want after importing it in LE3 ,if i place the model in the scene at 0,0,0 , to have the sphere still at 10,10,10

 

LE3 when importing a model recalculates the global center unfortunatelly.Having some option not not recalculate the object center could be usefull some times.