Is it possible to duplicate a scene object via code?

Hi art Nelson,

Here's an example script that might help. I tested it with the "Touch Started" event to create a copy of objectToBeSpawned on touch start. 

// Makes a copy of "objectToBeSpawned" at the same position and rotation as "positionTarget"

//@input SceneObject objectToBeSpawned
//@input SceneObject positionTarget

// Store objectToBeSpawned's transform as "sourceTr" 
var sourceTr = script.objectToBeSpawned.getTransform();

// Store objectToBeSpawned's original position and rotation
var oldPos = sourceTr.getWorldPosition();
var oldRot = sourceTr.getWorldRotation();

// Set objectToBeSpawned's position and rotation to match positionTarget
var targetTr = script.positionTarget.getTransform();
sourceTr.setWorldPosition(targetTr.getWorldPosition());
sourceTr.setWorldRotation(targetTr.getWorldRotation());

// Create a new SceneObject
var newObj = global.scene.createSceneObject("copy");

// Copy objectToBeSpawned into newObj
newObj.copyWholeHierarchy(script.objectToBeSpawned);

// Restore objectToBeSpawned's original position and rotation
sourceTr.setWorldPosition(oldPos);
sourceTr.setWorldRotation(oldRot);

Note that after copying an object, the new object doesn't get fully initialized right away, so you can't immediately make changes to it. That's why I repositioned the source object before making a copy, and restored its original position afterwards.

Hope this works for you! Let me know if you have any additional questions.

Hey Robert,

The sample code I gave is actually pretty outdated, I would now recommend using Prefabs instead.

Sample code for doing this with a prefab:

//@input Asset.ObjectPrefab prefab
//@input SceneObject parent
var instance = script.prefab.instantiate(script.parent || null);

Note that the parent object is optional in this case, since if null is passed in the object will spawn with no parent.