They serve no purpose to the end user, and as a result are just ugly and annoying. If someone really wants to get the current thumbnail camera and edit it, they can insert it through InsertService, but if an item is inserted through the toolbox all ThumbnailCamera instances should be destroyed.
I see what you mean, but… Couldn’t you just delete it? It’s not a huge issue.
plugin:
game.DescendantAdded:connect(function(descendant)
if descendant.Name == "ThumbnailCamera" then
spawn(function() descendant:Destroy() end)
end
end)
It’s not hard to delete it. What bothers me though is that if I make a model with a ThumbnailCamera every single person who inserts it is going to have that ugly thing in their explorer. Most of them won’t know how to create a plugin to delete it, and it ends up being really annoying for them each time they need to delete it whenever they insert a model.
Why do you need to delete it though?
It’s a back-end feature that’s used by developers, and not the people who use the model. The reason it should be deleted is the same as the reason we turn off debug/batch consoles for released programs, and the same reason ROBLOX hides the CoreGui from the explorer. ThumbnailCameras serve no purpose to the end-user(user of the model) and just clutter the explorer with unnecessary garbage. It’s useful to the model creator – useless to every other single person who takes the model, and even the creator when inserting it to be used and not developed further.
Say I want to update my “YOLOSWAGBOAT2016” model. I open up Studio, use the toolbox to insert the model, make a minor change, and then re-upload it. I want my thumbnail camera to still exist.
If you really don’t like them, make a plugin that removes them.
" I open up Studio, use the toolbox to insert the model, make a minor change, and then re-upload it. I want my thumbnail camera to still exist."
the model isn’t placed where it was in the world when it was uploaded, though. That means that the camera is no longer positioned correctly and probably isn’t facing the model any more.
[quote=Merely]Say I want to update my “YOLOSWAGBOAT2016” model. I open up Studio, use the toolbox to insert the model, make a minor change, and then re-upload it. I want my thumbnail camera to still exist.
If you really don’t like them, make a plugin that removes them. [/quote]
Read OP and thread in general pls.
“But I want to edit camera position of my model!”
(Fairly certain it would be correct to tailor to the infinitely larger number of users who use models instead of the tiny (in comparison) number of people who make models as well as use ThumbnailCamera objects for their models. The minority should be inconvenienced – not the majority.) Plus, as Spacek mentioned, models aren’t even inserted where you published them, so you couldn’t modify it anyway. Even if inserted through InsertService though the command bar they should be deleted.
“Just remove them if you don’t like them.”
[quote] Say I want to update my “YOLOSWAGBOAT2016” model. I open up Studio, use the toolbox to insert the model, make a minor change, and then re-upload it. I want my thumbnail camera to still exist.
If you really don’t like them, make a plugin that removes them. [/quote]
Spacek is right. It’s basically useless.
This has bothered me for the longest time
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please 
I am not adverse to this because inserting it from toolbox messes up alignment. But leave insertservice alone because it does let it align.