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Moving the floor grid

jukingeojukingeo Posts: 711
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Hello All,

I am in a situation in which I am doing two separate rendering locations on an island.  I have a set up scene on one end and initially I moved the entire island over the central spot where items spawn when selected.  The thing is now I cannot move the entire island for I didn't parent any of the new items I added to the island.  So naturally if I move it, some items well get left behind.  I am wondering if there is a way to move the grid over to a new location that I want to work on the island and thus create a new spawn point for items I want to put in that area. I do want to keep the first location intact in the event if it shows up in the background.

Thank you.

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  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479
    jukingeo said:

    Hello All,

    I am in a situation in which I am doing two separate rendering locations on an island.  I have a set up scene on one end and initially I moved the entire island over the central spot where items spawn when selected.  The thing is now I cannot move the entire island for I didn't parent any of the new items I added to the island.  So naturally if I move it, some items well get left behind.  I am wondering if there is a way to move the grid over to a new location that I want to work on the island and thus create a new spawn point for items I want to put in that area. I do want to keep the first location intact in the event if it shows up in the background.

    Thank you.

    It might be easiest to put everything except the island into a group with Parent in place enabled, then parent the group to the island. You can select everything you want to put into the group, then create a new group. Depending on factors I haven't figured out, doing it this way may change the parent of items already parented to objects you are adding to the group. Another way is to create the group first, and then parent the other items to the group.

    Theoretically, with everything now parented to the island via the Group, just move the island where you need it to be and everything in the group will follow. I admit to having issues with older items that didn't want to play nice with groups, though, so it's possible there will be one or two that need to be replaced.

    Or you could save the scene and close it, and work on the next section in a new scene. Once you're happy with the second section, you can merge the two scenes. Or you can render the scene that will be in the background, and use it on a plane, or as a backdrop in the Environment tab.

    You have many options to reach your end result.

  • jukingeojukingeo Posts: 711
    L'Adair said:

    It might be easiest to put everything except the island into a group with Parent in place enabled, then parent the group to the island. You can select everything you want to put into the group, then create a new group. Depending on factors I haven't figured out, doing it this way may change the parent of items already parented to objects you are adding to the group. Another way is to create the group first, and then parent the other items to the group.

    Theoretically, with everything now parented to the island via the Group, just move the island where you need it to be and everything in the group will follow. I admit to having issues with older items that didn't want to play nice with groups, though, so it's possible there will be one or two that need to be replaced.

    Or you could save the scene and close it, and work on the next section in a new scene. Once you're happy with the second section, you can merge the two scenes. Or you can render the scene that will be in the background, and use it on a plane, or as a backdrop in the Environment tab.

    You have many options to reach your end result.

    Thank you!  The first suggestion you mentioned worked out fine.  Initially I made the mistake of NOT setting "Parent In Place" and I bet you can guess what happened, right?   Everything clumbed to the center of the viewport!   It was very similar to the end of Poltergeist when the house got sucked into the portal. LOL!   Anyway, I reloaded the scene and then created a new group and make sure it was set to "Parent In Place" and that preserved everything where it was and I was able to move the entire island into postion where I wanted it on the grid.   If something didn't get moved over, I didn't see it yet.  So far so good!

     

    Thank you,

    Geo

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