realXtend/naali — Issue #263: Implement support for grouping entities.
Author: juj
Created: 2011-11-03 10:39:36+00:00
State: open
Labels: Feature Request

Add support for grouping entities in the scene structure window.

When a set of entities is grouped, they should show as one in the scene structure window, with a tree hierarchy showing the individual entities inside that group.

Also, selecting one entity of a group for the transform editor should select all the entities in the group. Transforming occurs as a group.

Grouping an entity does not build a parent-child hierarchy for the group. Entities in a group are free to move individually, e.g. as a response to a script adjusting the transform of a single entity in the group.

Recommend that the data bits required to store group information is stored in EC_Name, as a new attribute "string group;". That component allows scripts to query the whole set of entities in a single group.