Developers should be able to change the class of an instance in the explorer

As a Roblox developer, it is currently impossible to change the class of a an item in the Roblox Studio explorer and have all the properties and children be moved over. This could be UI objects being converted to another or even a normal part to a meshpart if I ever wanted to add detail to part of my map without the size changing.

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because it will help me make games faster if I ever make edits in the future. At the moment, the only workaround for this is to make a plugin that does this or insert a new instance and manually change each property, which I find myself doing a lot.

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You can use the SmartReclass plugin for that.

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link to the newer one to save bandwidth

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(might wanna move to #platform-feedback:studio-features since you are referring to the explorer which is only available in studio)

But yeah, the reclass plugin like mentioned above does what you want and more.

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