One collection duplicate
Hi all, I need your opinions. As usual, if I duplicate (clone) object, I want to have it only inside current/selected collection. And what about You? How do you instance objects to few collections?
I see solutions:
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Default Duplicate/Clone will work local inside collection or selected collections. Additional item of menu in outliner and additional hotkey for «Duplicate to all». But only if such option checked in Preferences->Editing -> Duplicate data (collections relation). Otherwise duplication to all collections will work as it is.
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Like in 2.79: Duplication will be done only inside visible collections (layers). But you can select few collections, press Shift+H and all other collections will be hidden, so duplicates will not created there.
How it works now: duplicate, then search by name, select unwanted, unlink from all collections except for a few . Odd way in my opinion. What do you think?
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now it is easier to relink object to one collection with collection manager. But it is still reverting of previus action…
Just too many problems with more than one collection / group per object.
Wrong organisation concept, holding a ramp on upgrades on viewport selection, future multiple modifiers application, multiple object interventions...
* @ Okavango * yes, it is complex concept. Yes we have problems. But a lot of advantages for instansing, animation, hierarchical instancing, procedural including, mass processing (modifier for collection)
I'm not certain this shouldn't be reported as a bug!
* @ammusionist * so we need to call someone from devteam here.
* @ammusionist * I checked. In 2.79 was the same situation with layers: duplicate had same layer-relation as parent. But the problem is now we can have A LOT of collections. And do not have ability to toss duplicate into few collections at once, as it was with Layers.{attachment 100257jpg}