Merge Scene

[jvcleave]

Found myself wanting the other day

Use case:

I build Fabric scene A with some stuff

I want to bring in a graph from a saved .fabric scene I have built before

File -> Import -> Merge -> select .fabric

Here's how 3dsMax does it for example:

Probably doesn't need to be as blown out. Maybe an option is "As Subgraph". I would assume the graph is copied in and not a living reference

[tobyspark]

I really like the idea of dragging a fabric document onto the node canvas and it turning into a Sub Graph node. That fits with e.g. dragging an image in from the Finder, means you can use the Finder as a kind of snippets library, and requires no new UI or added complication.

Would that serve you, @jvcleave? Or would you need something more?

[jvcleave]

For my case as long as I didn't have to bring in the whole graph that would be best

[vade]

im confused then - you want to intelligently drop in a sub portion of an existing graph, without opening it via a special import /merge function?

would that not require some way to express a selection choice?

why not open, copy, then paste?