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COpying group of objects and pasting it in another location

by Saravanan · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 08/21/2008 (1:47 am) · 4 replies

Iam creating an IT office setup where we have lots of cubicles with and computers. There will be number of copies for single item. For example there will be monitor for each cubicles. I have arranged monitor keyboard chair and mouse for one bay. Can i clone these objects as we do it in max. if i copy and paste, it comes in the center of the screen. i have to align these objects again. is there any easy way?
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Torque Owner Felix999
#1
09/03/2008 (2:12 pm)
Hey Saravanan,
i'm not the most experienced torque user ever, but as far as i know there's no easier way :(

Associate Ross Pawley
#2
09/03/2008 (2:29 pm)
@Saravanan, I believe (if I understand your question right) what you want is the Drop At submenu under the World menu. The default is to drop objects at "Screen Center" which is pretty awful really. Probably you'll want to use Drop at Camera or Drop at Camera w/ Rotation. Does that help, or am I misunderstanding the question here?

The copying/pasting with multiple objects *should* work with most objects, depending on what version of Torque you're using, but it can be hit or miss sometimes.

Torque Owner Erik Madison
#3
09/03/2008 (2:53 pm)
For your job, I would use 'Drop at centroid'. This will drop the new at the exact location of the old. So, once you've got one chair/desk/comp combo perfect, you'd drop the new paste at that exact spot. Now you only have to move them over a bit, one direction. You're floor height, distance from each other, etc. would remain perfect.

Saravanan
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#4
09/05/2008 (12:08 am)
Thanks for the help
I opened mission file in script editor and made a copy of one set of objects. then i repostioned it inside mission editor. By this way i have to position only x & y direction