added serde(default) to Transform (#23474)

GageHowe · web-flow · commit 2e1acb9d889a · 2026-04-02T19:23:25.000Z
# Objective

Need serde(Default) for Transform. I think it would be very useful in
cases where someone wants to add an object to their scene but doesn't
want to have to specify rotation or scale, e.g.:

```
5: (
  components: {
    "common::types::GameObjectKind": Rifle,
    "bevy_transform::components::transform::Transform": (
      translation: (1.5, 800.0, 0.0),
    ),
  },
),
```

## Solution

Added `#[cfg_attr(feature = "serialize", serde(default))]` before the
Transform struct.

## Testing

Successfully built bevy, but haven't tested extensively. Theoretically
shouldn't break existing functionality, since Deriving Transform was
invalid before this PR.
diff --git a/crates/bevy_transform/Cargo.toml b/crates/bevy_transform/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ bevy_math = { path = "../bevy_math", version = "0.19.0-dev", default-features =
   "approx",
 ] }
 approx = "0.5.1"
+ron = "0.8"
 
 [features]
 # Turning off default features leaves you with a barebones
diff --git a/crates/bevy_transform/src/components/transform.rs b/crates/bevy_transform/src/components/transform.rs
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ fn assert_is_normalized(message: &str, length_squared: f32) {
 /// [transform_example]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/latest/examples/transforms/transform.rs
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Clone, Copy)]
 #[cfg_attr(feature = "serialize", derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize))]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "serialize", serde(default))]
 #[cfg_attr(
     feature = "bevy-support",
     derive(Component),
