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Referencing a single object from another file?

Toquitaa — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:57:49 GMT

Hi there!

Let's say I have one big file with 500 trees, all in this single file. I'd call it "Trees_All" or something.
Now let's say I started a new exterior project and I want to reference only a single object/tree from the big file, how would I do that? From all I can see, referencing works by importing everything from the file?

I really just want to reference a few objects from the file but it brings everything, all trees, skybox, etc.

Re: Referencing a single object from another file?

mspeer — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 01:30:39 GMT

Hi!

This is not possible.

You can hide objects you do not want to see after using "File Referencing", but you can't reference only a single object.

Based on your example it would be best to create a single file with the tree and then use this file as reference in the scene "Trees_All" and in your new project.