The outliner rows include a number of icons which describe various characteristics of the item mentioned. Well, it would be enormously helpful to me if a “mouse hover” over any of these little pictures would generate a pop-up text message telling me exactly what that icon is supposed to mean. Because, well, “Blender is changing so very fast,” and my memory (koff, koff …) is not quite what it used to be.
… and, hey … wouldn’t it be way cooler(!) if the pop-up text included the icon in question, followed by its one-word explanation. That would “remove all doubt.”
The icons, generally, “are a really great idea … if (!!) you remember what they mean!” But if you don’t, then their meaning and so their value is completely lost. A simple “hover pop-up” would be perfect, solving the problem completely.
Or I’m misunderstanding? They could be reworded I guess, difference between eye and monitor is not very obvious from tooltip (eye only hides in current .blend file, has no effect when linking data from external .blend and monitor hides from current and from linked so it’s like super eye).
It doesn’t. That’s what the checkbox “exclude from viewlayer” does. It’s unclear to me what the practical difference is between eye and monitor currently.
To make things clear, the monitor is an object property. It carries over when you link an object between files, you can consider it the “real” object visibility. It doesn’t change per-viewlayer.
The eye is an objectbase property. An objectbase is an instance of an object on a specific viewlayer. So when you deactivate the eye, you’re only doing so for the specific viewlayer you’re in.
