Making duplicates of a mesh object and making them unique in the editor works as intended. However, duplicating them in code keeps the meshes linked, and modifying the shape keys of one modifies all of them. Is there a way to separate them in code? I'm using Gscript.
#"Make Unique" as a function
brazen crow
cunning birch
Are you sure you're using duplicate correctly?
They shouldn't be linked after duplicating
brazen crow
I've tried a few different flag sets, and none of them seem to work as intended
Upper left is made unique in editor. Ones on the right are duplicate()s of the bottom left one.
brazen crow
cunning birch
That's just duplicating a node, not the mesh
cunning birch
Assuming it needs to be duplicated, then yes
brazen crow
That... okay I kinda hate that, I haven't seen anything like that anywhere
cunning birch
Why are you duplicating nodes instead of using scenes or something?
Resources are reference types, so if you duplicate a node, it just copies the reference
brazen crow
I mean, I need copies of the script too.
And I tried using scenes, but those got linked too.
I tried Duplicate and Instance with a pre-loaded resource, both had the exact same result.
cunning birch
In a scene you can set "local to scene" on any resource that you want to have a local scene copy, rather than a reference to the same copy
brazen crow
Wat. How?
cunning birch
Just check the box
brazen crow
Okay, where
cunning birch
On the resource
brazen crow
Do you mean in MeshInstance in the Inspector?
cunning birch
How are you changing the mesh anyway? That code didn't really show that
brazen crow
Modifying shape keys using the script in the MeshInstance node.
brazen crow
... Blend Shapes
These bits.
Also, to anyone else who looks at this asking the same thing: this button here
-> Resource tab -> Local To Scene
You REALLY gotta be more specific to what buttons we're supposed to click in the editor, but thanks for nudging me in the right direction.
cunning birch
You found it, so seems like I was specific enough