I am slowly and painfully beginning to see the logic of only using components. I'm working on a large model with a mixture of groups and components. I thought it made sense to use components for things I would replicate, and groups for unique objects. I thought using groups would save me from having to remember to make a component instance unique when, well, making it unique by editing it. Way too often I've changed an instance and inadvertently screwed up all the others. However, now that I have a mixture of groups and components, I frequently suffer from that bug that changes names in Entity Info when moving from group to component (and vice versa) in the Outliner. Arg!

Yeah, that works. I should have mentioned that I'd like that functionality with nested groups too. Not too hard to convert to components though.

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I want to edit a nested component, while seeing the component it's nested within. Many times I need to modify a deeply nested component to fit within it's slightly less deeply nested parent. Toggling Hide Rest of Model allows me to hide the clutter and edit the component, but it's futile without the ability to see it's parent. I end up having to hide obscuring components in the outliner, edit without using HROM, then unhide them. Any plugins out there that do this?

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There it is. No idea how it got changed to .rbx. Changed it back to .rb and it works fine.

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I have a ../plugins/utilities.rbx and ../plugins/Utilities/utilitiestools.rb.

Aren't extensions.rbz files? Is the .rbx an old file?

Any ideas where to download both?

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I see the utilities folder with utilitiestools.rb in it, and all Windows:Extensions are enabled including Ruby Script Examples, but the Tools:Utilities item doesn't show up on the menu.

I liked the Query tool for finding coordinates.

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Works like a champ - like it should.

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I've created scenes, for use in Layout, to display particular components. All layers are turned off except for the layer(s)my components are on. Works fine, except when I create new layers they are automatically added to all previously created scenes, which kind of defeats the purpose of scenes in my view.

Every time I create a new layer, I have to remove them from all previously defined scenes. A real pain.

Any work arounds?