Scaling down a child/inherited root-scene (enemy scene) does not scale the scene in the top-most scene/level (level scene)

[TheConceptBoy]

Godot version:
3.1.1 official stable

OS/device including version:
Windows 7 SP 1 64bit

Issue description:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L67F8kpJ7k

[KoBeWi]

Things like translation, rotation and scale are part of Transform. When you modify any of them, their value is no longer inherited (and you pretty much always change them by putting object on the scene in a specific position).

Scaling the instanced scene is the indented way to work. At least that seems pretty obvious to me. If it really bothers you, you can add another child node to the model scene, put everything under it and scale that one.

[TheConceptBoy]

Good day and thank for replying. I was under impression that the whole point of the scenes is to make a perfect template / class / prefab of an item which you can instance anywhere. It would be fine if the re-impiort button was working (where you can set the base scale of the scene prior to re-import) however that seems to be not producing any visible result. The added child node sounds like a work around and a fine solution, however the only issue is that moving all selected nodes breaks all connections between the skeleton mesh and the animation without a clear method of restoring the connections.

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[KoBeWi]

It would be fine if the re-impiort button was working (where you
can set the base scale of the scene prior to re-import) however that seems
to be not producing any visible result.

That seems like a bug actually, although I'm not that familiar with model importing.

[Anutrix]

Correct me if I am wrong, but what you want is, the instanced scene's root node scale(0.2) to be saved as its default_scale(1) in your main scene
i.e, 1 is the new 0.2(doubtful grammar but you get the point)?

[schertudi]

I'd like this too. Right now I'm playing around with scaling while testing out things - I have a few inherited scenes that I want to scale up. There's quite a few of these scenes floating around so manually editing the scaling for each one isn't ideal, and as this isn't necessary a permanent change I'm reluctant to change the structure of the nodes to accommodate this.

For now a "workaround" to this is to totally reset all the other transformations on the instanced scene (including the matrix), which will cause the custom scaling to kick into place. Then you need to re-apply any translation/rotations you added onto the node beforehand. (probably adjusting the scaling manually is faster/easier than this though.)

Imo not preserving the scaling is counter-intuitive - if you decide that the root node should be x units big you're more likely than not to want that to persist among the scenes it's instanced in.

Can the decision to inherit or not inherit a transform value be based on whether or not the individual Transform component was modified, rather than asking if the entire Transform has been modified at all?

[KoBeWi]

Can anyone still reproduce this bug in Godot 3.2.3 or any later release?

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