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reiwulf
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I'd really liker the option to "group" a number of assets together, so we can then edit it as a whole entity (copy, move, rotate, tilt, etc) I like to make enterable houses in my quests, and just to get the base building, it's quite some work, so it would save a lot of time. I could create the base house, and then copy it around the map, and put different furniture and stuff inside them. It would be so much faster. When pasting it, we could have the option to "explode" it to edit each asset individually, like one normally would, this is a pretty used option in most 3d editing programs.
Also I'd like to be able to copy assets/maps from one project to another. I know many people use a quest just for making maps and then copying it over, but it's a complicated way of doing it. I like to start with my projects clean, not with 30-40 maps. Also asset copying if we would ever get the "asset grouping" I asked for earlier. So we could copy them over to another project.
WHat do you think? Would you like these options added to the foundry? I'd love to see what you think about it.
Also I'd like to be able to copy assets/maps from one project to another. I know many people use a quest just for making maps and then copying it over, but it's a complicated way of doing it. I like to start with my projects clean, not with 30-40 maps. Also asset copying if we would ever get the "asset grouping" I asked for earlier. So we could copy them over to another project.
WHat do you think? Would you like these options added to the foundry? I'd love to see what you think about it.
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One thing I lament currently is that even copying a quest isn't going to be enough for me, since I want to copy one map from one quest, and another map from a completely different quest (thus tying them together in the third, but since they do not have a common source, this is impossible. I'd have to completely rebuild at least one of them piece-by-piece.
I am working on a quest set in a library, so for that, I needed to be able to Copy/Paste groups of bookshelves. 2d was much more efficient for that, but it messed up the y-axis heights for them, because pasting in 2d rounds to the nearest 2-foot increment, instead of placing it at the same y value. Although how half of them ended up at -6 I have no idea, apart from just a bug.
When copy/paste multiple items in 2d, if you have snap to grid on, it will auto move the items to the nearest grid point. If you want it to copy/paste exactly the same, turn off snap to grid, then move it, it will retain its set values. Then you can turn snap to grid back on for other single copy/pastes.
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However, the Y-values are not maintained through the copy and paste process... because, like the X and Z coords, it averages the coords to create a centroid for the entire collection... which can introduce some serious offsets in the Y axis, unless everything is at Y = 0.
Although, if you often use Relative to Terrain, you would generally not notice.