I am planning to model a large 
vehicle with many parts. I want to 
keep the parts in separate files so
they don't all have to be loaded every 
time I edit something. How can I include
the separate files to make a scene?

	Note: I don't want to "merge object"
because the parts themselves will need
updating, so there must be only a single 
copy of each part. I can't go around the
scene hunting down copies and replacing 
them with a newer version.

	Has anyone tried anything like this 
or knows of any relevant tools?


					David

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> I am planning to model a large
>vehicle with many parts. I want to
>keep the parts in separate files so
>they don't all have to be loaded every
>time I edit something. How can I include
>the separate files to make a scene?
>
> Note: I don't want to "merge object"
>because the parts themselves will need
>updating, so there must be only a single
>copy of each part. I can't go around the
>scene hunting down copies and replacing
>them with a newer version.
>
> Has anyone tried anything like this
>or knows of any relevant tools?
>
>
> David
>
I think you can do this by saving the objects and then, instead of merging
the objects, just use them as include files in the scene settings (last tab)

ZK

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Hi David Byrden, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> 	I am planning to model a large 
> vehicle with many parts. I want to 
> keep the parts in separate files so
> they don't all have to be loaded every 
> time I edit something. 
Moray doesn't really support this type of editing, i.e. via multiple
MDL files. Your best bet would be to work with visibility levels.

If you do work in Moray and have parts that are the same, make sure
that you use the Duplicate function and check the Reference option, so
that copied objects use references (shallow copies). Doing it this way
makes sure that changes to the master copy are propagated to all the
other copies. The Tutorial Reference Objects covers this.

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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