Cataloging Entire Scenes Behavior

[tlehnhaeuser]

 

 

While exploring a way to catalog entire scenes, I have stumbled on something that may be useful be don't know how yet. Maybe some members can have some ideas.

 

Basically you can drag the entire scene into a catalog by dragging the Scene Icon from the Scene Browser into a catalog.

When you drag that Scene into a new Scene it actually becomes an Embedded OLE object and the parts don’t show up in the new scene, so I open the embedded scene and there are my parts, at this point I can save to a new scene file if desired.

Also, if I make a slight change and Close it goes back into the original scene that I dragged into as an Image in the scene. This image can be treated like a part where you can resize it, etc...

In the image, used it as a backdrop that accepts shadows, etc...

 

 

 

 

This seems cool, but not sure if this is the intended behavior and if there is even a benefit to this.

 

So does anyone have ideas?

Tom

 

[Cary OConnor]

It has been there for a long time. It was designed for Drag and Drop OLE into Wrod/Excel, Etc. If you want a linked OLE, use the insert OLE Object option.

Cary

[tlehnhaeuser]

Hi Cary,

I remember the eOLE stuff from way back, but is the a way to drag and drop the entire scene into anothere scene NOT as OLE?

 

I know I can Insert but I want to creta catalogs of Scenes.

 

Thanks

Tom

Edited August 5, 2005 by tlehnhaeuser

[Cary OConnor]

Not without insert. Unless you create an Assembly and then drag and drop that assembly.

Cary