About storing the staircase data to make it editable, I'm not really found of this at the moment.
In case you didn't pay attention to it, the last entered values in the plug-in are kept until you quit the program, making it easy to update the last generated staircase by deleting it and opening the plug-in dialog box again.
I'm aware of that, it's the same with the Generate 3D Shape tool. I use that tool frequently because you can create nice cut corners instead of butting two box shapes together. Texturing looks much better that way. And I save the data for shapes.... by making a screenshot of the tool window In case you didn't pay attention to it, the last entered values in the plug-in are kept until you quit the program, making it easy to update the last generated staircase by deleting it and opening the plug-in dialog box again.
It's a clumsy way but the only thing available at the moment. Saving the data is one of the things that makes the Generate Terrain plugin so useful. You can delete the terrain object, select the room, and make further changes. I don't think saving the source data in that way would work for shapes and staircases but I see it like importing an object, only in the tool window, not in the plan. I haven't looked at the source code yet but I'm willing to bet that if the generated object has detailed naming you might even have enough for a clean re-import. Something to think about because eventually there will come a next generator and a standardized way to re-import generated objects back into the generator would be a good thing for maintainability.
For now screenshots work too and for staircases that's not a problem because you usually are creating a single staircase. I'd much sooner want it for the shapes because I use multiple shapes for combinations so the data of the last shape is often useless.
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