Duplicating Prefab Actors

S2Engine

So I'm working on an environment in UDK and I planned on making heavy usage of Prefab actors to quickly snap together groupings of modular meshes. However, I'm running into an issue where shift-dragging out a duplicate seems to reset the dupe to the original rotation of the actor, rather than keeping the orientation of the instance I'm copying from.



Is there any way to get the editor to retain the rotation from the instance, instead of resetting every time?

ZacD

Hold alt while dragging the move icon... thing...

S2Engine

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing.

To see what I mean: create a prefab, rotate it, then alt-drag out a copy.

WarrenM

Sorry, prefabs always reset their rotation/scaling when duplicated. You might try using Groups instead. Select the actors, hit CTRL+G ... now they will behave as one unit.

DeadlyFreeze

I asked this awhile ago on the UDK forum and this just seems to be the default behavior sadly. No real fix besides making another prefab instance with the correct rotation to clone from.

S2Engine

That's disappointing about prefabs, but grouping does seem to work fine instead. I guess you could create a prefab to keep as a base in the package, then drop it into a level, convert to normal actors, and group and duplicate it about.

ambershee

I find that prefabs are just plain woefully sketchy. Don't even think about including kismet in prefabs.

I've found it better to just create prefab 'maps', with easily selectable and copyable groups of objects.