Maniphest T93839

Instance Collections - Copy/Paste
Closed, ResolvedBUG

Assigned To
Bastien Montagne (mont29)
Authored By
Brent (3D4)
Dec 7 2021, 10:35 PM
Tags
  • BF Blender
  • Core
Subscribers
Bastien Montagne (mont29)
Brent (3D4)
Richard Antalik (ISS)

Description

System Information
Operating system: MacOS Mojave Version 10.14.6 iMac2017
Graphics card: Radeon Pro Vega 64 16GB

Blender Version
Broken: 3.0.0, f1cca3055776, master

Short description of error

When copying and pasting an instanced collection into a new blender file, you'll get the instance group AND the individual objects that comprise the instance pasted separately into the scene.

Example:

  1. I have a collection that has two objects: Cube 1 and Cube 2.
  2. I instance the collection and call it Group 1. I copy the Group 1 collection instance to paste into a new Blender file.
  3. I paste Group 1 collection instance into a new Blender file, however it pastes the instance collection Group 1 AND it pastes Cube 1 and Cube 2 separately. There are now a total of 4 cubes in the new scene.

Prior versions of Blender allowed an instance collection to be copy/pasted and only the instance would appear in the new scene.

Revisions and Commits

rB Blender

Related Objects

Mentioned Here
rBf1cca3055776: Blender 3.0 - version bump -> release

Event Timeline

Brent (3D4) created this task.Dec 7 2021, 10:35 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) reopened this task as Confirmed.Dec 20 2021, 4:54 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) changed the subtype of this task from "Report" to "Bug".
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a project: Core.
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added subscribers: Richard Antalik (ISS), Bastien Montagne (mont29).

@Richard Antalik (ISS) copy/pasting and linking are two separate things, with their own specific behaviors (even though they use the same low-level code under the hood). Please do not mix them together.

Bastien Montagne (mont29) moved this task from Backlog to Blender 3.1 on the Core board.Dec 20 2021, 4:54 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) merged a task: T93872: Copy/Pasting Instance Collection.
Bastien Montagne (mont29) closed this task as Resolved by committing rBbb4de77b82f2: Fix T93839: Copy/Paste of empty instantiating a collection..Dec 21 2021, 9:53 AM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) claimed this task.
Bastien Montagne (mont29) added a commit: rBbb4de77b82f2: Fix T93839: Copy/Paste of empty instantiating a collection..