Yes, this is right. Prefabs are limited, and they don't let you unleash your full creativity. But what if I want to make Black Mesa Parking and I need to put all of the jeeps? It is easy, simple and it is good. If you don't use prefabs, that's OK. You get to make everything by yourself, you take the credit for it. In a Compo with limited time, however, Prefabs are some of your friends. I am giving an example: I put a beatiful lamp in a hallway. It is so good and everyone loves it. But my hallway is not small, and I need multiple of these lamps. Oh wait, it doesn't stop there! The next room is in another map, that will be transmissioned. What do I do? For the first map, that I already created the lamp, I can just copy it over and over again. But for the second one? I have to rebuild it or copy it. If it has a lot of small details, there is no way I am going through it again. It is
time consuming. And as I mentioned earlier, it is a Compo's last week (putting the fact of the Water Splash Compo ending in less than a week). Well, I just make the lamp in a prefab (relatively easy to do), and then I use it, not only for the next map, but till the dawn of the self deleting files starts appearing on the front. (just joking, this will never happen...probably
)
In conclusion, Prefabs are childish, but
not time consuming. Use them when you need some time.
This is something like an answer to Admer456. I think so. I wrote it all so I can refute what he wrote.
And also to open the eyes of the members of TWHL about the usage of prefabs.
See ya.