Parent to Empty script

#1

There’s been some cool activity refering Blender’s outliner recently, that made me remember of this little script… it is an attempt to simplify the handling of many objects in a scene.
It will create an empty -and a group if you want- and parent/link selected objects to that empty/group… you can change name and other settings from toolshelf or use F6.

script

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9211/paremp.png

a very simple script but anyway:

  • name: for the empty and the group if created
  • create group: so you can use the groups view of outliner
  • cursor location: create at selection center or at cursor
  • rename objects: add the name as a prefix for each children
#2

great, thank you very much :slight_smile:

#3

Hey, cool script idea. Cuts out a couple of steps. Very effective when groups are not appropriate (or ideal) for organizing objects. I know I often organize with empties.

#4

thanks guys, I do use empties a lot to organize objects…
it won’t break existing hierarchies now, could be better though

great drag and drop feature you are working on SCUEY!

#5

This could be really cool. Sadly, it’s gone as of today.

#6

here’s an updated script, it’s very simple but I still use from time to time
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uxm6roepg8hqmt0/parent_empty_addon.py?dl=1

#7

I replied on the thread he started. Parent to empty is still there. It looks like they removed the panel to maybe clean up a little.

#8

Thanks for this script, liero. So simple but it`s such an improvement in my workflow. Very happy about this!

#9

+1 , good idea :slight_smile: !

#10

An update for 2.8 would be great, need this :slight_smile:

#11

it’s in nightly 2.8 builds in add mesh extra objects

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#12

So awesome!!! Thx