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Martin Kay
05-25-2009, 03:45 PM
How hard could it be to allow a whole 'parent and child' group be hidden from view with one click, whereas it seems now you have to 'expand' the group to labouriously hide each individual object in turn. How about a material preview you can actually see, like something twice the size of the current tiny square. How about a set of controls for specularity that are calibrated in a sensible fashion let alone are not ultra touchy to set.
I keep finding things like this as I try to prepare a scene for testing the upcoming Vs8. UI enhancements that make life easier and that can't honestly be any more difficult than using Macromedia Director- we're not talking months of tricky bug ridden programming here. Like in the upcoming version you right click a shader in the list and up it comes instead of wading through a number of pallettes...
I'm not overly impressed by the aliasing quality for stills- very jaggy at best. Its all very well rendering at twice size, but with GI you don't really want to be doing that as speed is the issue- I think.
On the positive side, the render quality is what saves EI... maybe.
Martin K
arketype
05-25-2009, 06:11 PM
How hard could it be to allow a whole 'parent and child' group be hidden from view with one click, whereas it seems now you have to 'expand' the group to labouriously hide each individual object in turn.
Martin K

This can be done now with hotkeys.
You can Cmd-Opt Click the visibility checkbox of the parent to hide the parent and all children at once.

I have this hotkey assigned to my middle mouse button (using USB overdrive) so that it is just a single mouse click.

Another good one to assign to a mouse button is Cmd-shft-h which will "open" or "close" a hierarchy (h=toggle "hide children").

These two custom mouse settings really help productivity in selecting, and hiding items in large projects. ;)

Dave.
Martin Kay
05-25-2009, 06:16 PM
This can be done now with hotkeys.
You can Cmd-Opt Click the visibility checkbox of the parent to hide the parent and all children at once.

I have this hotkey assigned to my middle mouse button (using USB overdrive) so that it is just a single mouse click.

Another good one to assign to a mouse button is Cmd-shft-h which will "open" or "close" a hierarchy (h=toggle "hide children").

These two custom mouse settings really help productivity in selecting, and hiding items in large projects. ;)

Dave.

Thanks for that information Dave.

Martin K
A.C. Farley
05-26-2009, 01:20 AM
It's not one click, but very easy.

Right click the parent object (The children don't need to be showing), then from the pop up menu, select 'Children of selected'. AFter that you'll have to shift-select the parent again, then uncheck the parent and all the selected objects will get turned off as well. It's actually a lot less of a hassle than it sounds.

It would work better if the parent object stayed selected when one picked 'Children of selected', but it's good.

-Craig
Martin Kay
05-26-2009, 07:45 AM
It's not one click, but very easy.

Right click the parent object (The children don't need to be showing), then from the pop up menu, select 'Children of selected'. AFter that you'll have to shift-select the parent again, then uncheck the parent and all the selected objects will get turned off as well. It's actually a lot less of a hassle than it sounds.

It would work better if the parent object stayed selected when one picked 'Children of selected', but it's good.

-Craig

Thanks for that. I guess it was under my nose...

Martin K
A.C. Farley
05-26-2009, 02:36 PM
Hi,

You're welcome. I'm glad I had some good info.

-Craig
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