Thangs get inserted into hero levels without any Components for easy defaulting. Working on moving Hero Placeholder ThangType swapping from LevelLoader to Level, but it's not there yet.

app/lib/LevelLoader.coffee

@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ module.exports = class LevelLoader extends CocoClass
     @worldNecessities = @worldNecessities.concat worldNecessities
 
   populateHero: ->
+    return
     return if @inLevelEditor
     return unless @level.get('type') is 'hero' and hero = _.find @level.get('thangs'), id: 'Hero Placeholder'
     heroConfig = @session.get('heroConfig')
@@ -218,6 +219,7 @@ module.exports = class LevelLoader extends CocoClass
 
     for thangTypeName in thangsToLoad
       thangType = nameModelMap[thangTypeName]
+      console.log 'found ThangType', thangType, 'for', thangTypeName, 'of nameModelMap', nameModelMap unless thangType
       continue if thangType.isFullyLoaded()
       thangType.fetch()
       thangType = @supermodel.loadModel(thangType, 'thang').model

app/models/Level.coffee

@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ module.exports = class Level extends CocoModel
       for thangComponent in levelThang.components ? []
         placeholders[thangComponent.original] = thangComponent
       levelThang.components = []
+      heroThangType = session?.get('heroConfig')?.thangType
+      console.log "got thang type", heroThangType
+      levelThang.thangType = heroThangType if heroThangType
 
     configs = {}
     for thangComponent in levelThang.components

app/views/editor/level/thangs/ThangsTabView.coffee

@@ -311,10 +311,14 @@ module.exports = class ThangsTabView extends CocoView
     else
       @addThangSprite = null
 
-  createEssentialComponents: ->
+  createEssentialComponents: (defaultComponents) ->
+    physicalConfig = {pos: {x: 10, y: 10, z: 1}}
+    if physicalOriginal = _.find(defaultComponents ? [], original: componentOriginals['physics.Physical'])
+      physicalConfig.pos.z = physicalOriginal.config.pos.z  # Get the z right
+    console.log physicalOriginal, defaultComponents, componentOriginals['physics.Physical'], physicalConfig
     [
       {original: componentOriginals['existence.Exists'], majorVersion: 0, config: {}}
-      {original: componentOriginals['physics.Physical'], majorVersion: 0, config: {pos: {x: 10, y: 10, z: 1}, width: 2, height: 2, depth: 2, shape: 'box'}}
+      {original: componentOriginals['physics.Physical'], majorVersion: 0, config: physicalConfig}
     ]
 
   createAddThang: ->
@@ -424,9 +428,11 @@ module.exports = class ThangsTabView extends CocoView
     if @cloneSourceThang
       components = _.cloneDeep @thangsTreema.get "id=#{@cloneSourceThang.id}/components"
       @selectAddThang null
+    else if @level.get('type') is 'hero'
+      components = []  # Load them all from default ThangType Components
     else
       components = _.cloneDeep thangType.get('components') ? []
-    components = @createEssentialComponents() unless components.length
+    components = @createEssentialComponents(thangType.get('components')) unless components.length
     physical = _.find components, (c) -> c.config?.pos?
     physical.config.pos = x: pos.x, y: pos.y, z: physical.config.pos.z if physical
     thang = thangType: thangType.get('original'), id: thangID, components: components