Scene Forge Prototype Objects

Scene Forge Prototype (SF_Prototype) is a component that is attached to a game object in order to be used by the Scene Forge tool in its operations. Those are typically basic shape objects like cubes, planes, cylinders, etc. Those objects are then added to a Collection object as children, so that they can be grouped in categories and managed more easily.

You can prototype entire scenes using simple cubes.

Properties

Adding a prototype object in your scene can be done easily by pressing Shift+A or by navigating to Tools/Scene Forge/Prototyping.

Additionally you can convert your own basic shapes to Scene Forge prototypes by:

  1. Selecting object/objects from the scene
  2. Pressing Shift+S and navigating to Convert/Add SF Component

As well as removing the Scene Forge prototype component by:

  1. Selecting object/objects from the scene
  2. Pressing Shift+S and navigating to Convert/Remove SF Component

If you want to clean your scenes from any Scene Forge Components you can do so by navigating to the top bar Tools/Scene Forge/Package Clean Up and click on the Clean Current Scene button.

The SF_Component by itself has no other function than to just mark the assigned object as Scene Forge Prototype so it has little to none impact on game performance when testing.

Requirements

Scene Forge must be active in order to add prototype objects using the shortcuts.

Limitations

Using the Convert/Add SF Component function will not change the materials of your object to Scene Forge prototype materials. It will only add the SF_Prototype component to it. The color of the parent collection with have no affect on the object.