Import location of scene?

paul_f91077b4

Is there a way to change the location where something defaults to in a scene? Is it possible to have items import into the current camera's view?

I'm work with the Airport Island City Center and everything imports super far away from the whole scene.

rames44

One option is to hold down the Alt key (on Windows) and then drag the asset onto the scene. This will let you place the asset at a specific spot, rather than having it load where it feels like it when you double click on the asset in your content library. 

Richard Haseltine

If you hold down opt(Mac)/alt(Win) and drag the item from the content pane into the scene, instead of double-clicking, then you will see a target icon that acts as the temporary origin for importing (at ground level). Another option is to use the Align pane. However, iray ( at least in current and ecent builds) seems to have trouble if items are far from the centre so you may be better off moving the whole set to place the area of inteest at the origin, rather than moving the items to the area of interest.