This page covers what favorites and prefabs are, how to create them, use them and organize them
Favorites and prefabs let you alias anything you want (Single objects to whole groups)
Things marked as favorite can be assigned a name, category and tags
The combination of categories and tags allow for both for browsing through your library, and also highly specifc and organized searching
The favorites system offer multiple ways of browsing and searching:
Simple text based search
Tag based filters
Grouping a categories contents by tags
Categories can be easily shared and merged
Category files can be found in Cyberpunk 2077\bin\x64\plugins\cyber_engine_tweaks\mods\entSpawner\data\favorite (E.g. For sharing)
Favorite: This is a single object
Prefab: This is an entire group, made to be re-usable just like single objects
In the following, "Favorite" and "Prefab" is used interchangeably, since they are treated exactly the same
The main favorites view can be found on the "Spawn New" tab, specifically the Favorites subtab
Underneath the Add Category header, you can find everything you need to make a new category
There are two ways of creating them:
Right-Click any item in the "Spawn New" list, and choose Make Favorite
Right-Click any item (Group or object) in the "Spawned UI" hierarchy, and select Make Favorite / Prefab
Tip: You can also simply hit CTRL-F, and make the currently selected item a favorite / prefab
A popup will appear, allowing you to assign a name, tags and category:
You can always bring back this menu, by clicking the configuration button for the favorite you like to edit, in the main favorites view
To spawn a favorite, simply click it in the main favorites view
You can also do any of the more advanced things, such as drag and dropping a favorite into the world
This works the same as spawning anything from the All tab
Clicking the icon on the right of a category will group its contents by their tags
This can be done recursively for each created tag category
If you already know what to look for, you can also use the search bar, and the Search Tags selection
Search tags can be set to be either in AND or OR mode
Often you might end up with multiple tags that indicate the same thing:
E.g. "Large", "large", "L", "big"
To combine these tags, you can use the Rename Tags header, where you can select which tags to rename, and what the new name should be
Categories can be merged in two ways:
Automatic: If you ever end up having two categories with the same name (E.g. You added someone else's categories), they will be merged
Explicitly
To explicitly merge a category into another, simply use the category configuration menu (Wheel button)
When merging categories, any favorites which contain the same data (E.g. the same mesh) will be merged as well (Tags will be combined).
Additonally, a pre-merge copy of both categories will be placed in the preMerge subfolder of the favorites folder
