Since I haven’t applied the modifier, I found out that when I linked-duplicated the bishop-and-notch a bishop without the notch appeared, and going into edit mode showed that they’re not linked! I wanted to know if I was doing something incorrectly.
Also saw Problem link-duplicating bishop - Blender Courses / Ask - GameDev.tv and was wondering if there’s any other way to do this.
Why don’t you just finish the bishop before duplicating it?
Apply the boolean, join the top, etc.
Oh these versions don’t have joined tops, I have made these separately.
I did apply the boolean of course, but I was wondering if there’s another way.
In a more advanced setup, the Bishop is located in its own .blend file.
So you have a .blend chess game file and a Bishop file.
From the chess game project you can link (File > Link), to the file and collection which contains the bishop AND boolean notch object.
Then you have one object to maintain and many copies to show.
But there is a catch, you can not edit the bishop inside the chess game file.
You need to open the bishop file to edit.
There are some Add-Ons that will automatically switch between files in these linked solutions.
But as I said, it’s more advanced project management.
Oh, I have appended the bishop from a .blend file into the scene.
Linking seems to be exactly what I was looking for. I’ll tinker with it before it’s introduced in the course, but will probably incorporate it along with the lectures.
It’s exactly how I would use prefabs in Unity or blueprints in Unreal Engine: I’m familiar with that workflow.
Marking this as solution to resolve this thread for now.
I’m not sure this linked object, will be handled in detail.
I did these courses many years ago, and they changed hugely.
But, if in doubt, do ask again!
Have fun!
I mean if linked objects are a useful feature I’ll probably learn it soon, however it comes!
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