Exporting collection instances with hidden objects

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Hello, I don’t know if this is the correct category to create this topic but I am having some issues with exporting collection instances with hidden objects.

Just for an example, this is how my collections are nested.
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I do not want to have -3- in the export, so I turn off every visibility option I can think of
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and create an instance of -Collection- which looks just like what I want to have

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I export it as a gltf file, and -3- shows up in the exported file

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I am trying to batch export many nested collections with hidden collections under. I thought instancing collections like this and turning off their visibility would work, but sadly it didn’t. How can I solve this issue? Or is there any addon for such batch collection -with nested hidden collections inside- export? The ones I found were very good at exporting collections with objects inside / multiple objects but it didn’t work in my case.

Thanks a lot!

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That’s interesting because when I export it as a .fbx file, I am getting what I need. I am a bit confused now…

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The FBX exporter and GLTF are very different on the back-end, it’s normal to see significant differences in those exports. You could try exporting it as an FBX and then converting it to GLTF with an online converter or something?

Or a command-line converter:

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Thanks a lot. I was hoping to find a way to export gltf files straight away, but this also seems to be an option.

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Simply check this option on glTF export to only export objects that are render visible.

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To toggle whether a collection or object is renderable, check the camera icon near their data-block name in the Outliner Editor.

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Thanks a lot for your reply, I do not know what I am doing different, but I also tried that with all the other combinations under -limit to-, but still, hidden objects are being exported.

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That’s odd. It works fine for me with the export only renderable objects option, as well as with this Outliner setup.

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Could you share a blend of your own that can reproduce the issue? If you can, please enable this option so that others can see the exact settings you’ve used in the past.

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