Instantiate Child Scene puts imported scene in a default location

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Godot Version

v4.6.2.stable.official [71f334935]

Question

For context: Only been using Godot a couple days, following gamedev.tv lesson (instructor using v4.1.1)

Also, I’m only using the UI (no code) for creating/instantiating, etc.

I’ve created a simple scene with multiple mesh blocks. There is one ‘main’ block called ‘floor’ and the rest are children. The ‘floor’ block is transformed by -4y with other children all around.

I selected the ‘floor’ group and saved ‘branch as scene’.

I immediately noticed that the ‘floor’ group with children became only the ‘floor’ - all children nodes folded up into the ‘floor’ parent. I can no longer access/edit the children. I assume this is because the system now considers my parent/children an instance of the ‘branch’ I just saved.

Most importantly, when I used ‘instantiate child scene’ in a different scene, and loaded the ‘floor’, it imported in the original location instead of the transformed (-4y) location that the branch was saved.

However, in the tutorial, the instance imported in the transformed position (which is what I wanted).

So I have several questions:

  1. Why is the saved instance imported at the origin, instead of the transformed position (like in the tutorial) ? Perhaps it’s more accurate to say that it was saved at the origin and not the transformed location?
  2. Why did this happen differently in the tutorial (Godot v4.1.1) ?

Thanks.

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Hard to tell without seeing the code.

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What code are you referring to?

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When you instantiate an scene, you should adjust the transform position to properly place it n the root scene on you set it as child.

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Oh, you don’t instantiate via code?

I don’t know what your tutorial does but if you save the branch as a scene the root node position will be nullified. If you want it moved, open the scene and move it there.

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Ok, so it is normal for the saved scene to import normalized - correct?

Then I’m completely confused as to why it came it properly positioned in the tutorial I watched.

Perhaps because they were using v4.1.1 ?

Or has it always been normalized?

I guess I’ll post on their forum as well.

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Hard to tell without seeing what exactly they did in that tutorial.

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I think I figured it out - when I Saved Branch As Scene, the ‘reset position’ box was checked.