Instancing an individual mesh from an imported blend file

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Godot Version

4.2.1

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Hi

I have saved the .blend (the scene originally has the object seen in the pic below) in the project folder and Godot imported it successfully. I can see the asset as meshes in the instance scene and in the scene browser.

The thing is that I want to be able to instance individual objects from this import (like Suzanne). I am looking for how to do this in a GDscript and doing it in the editor, since I need them as separate objects, instancing this import in the scene just instance all the meshes as single asset in my scene

thanks

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The easy way to do this is to have separate blender-exported files for each object. It is possible to avoid this, but it is complicated.

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Fine, but that is not how I would like to achieve in this case. I am trying to understand how to do it rather than finding a work around.

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then, maybe what you want is in the _subresources property of the imported scene? beyond that, it should be just regular mesh objects

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I do not think that _subresources is available in the scene or in the editor., It seems to be an import time option.

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You can instance individual meshes by opening the .blend Import > Advanced > Meshes and for each mesh enable Save to File, give each a name and reimport, create a new scene with a MeshInstance3D that points to the mesh file and save as .tscn which you can then instance. Changes to .blend file will reflect to those individual mesh files.