Subgroups & group visibility through Blender Outliner

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#1

Hi all.

I am wondering why there is no possibility to make a subgroup in Blender.
Second thing - why it is not possible to use “eye” in outliner for groups to hide/unhide objects in one group.

Both would be very usefull.

Do you think it is very difficult to write an addon for it?

Regards,
k77

#2

you can parent objects to kind of create sub-groups.
(Un-)hiding groups via outliner can’t work, because it is mono-hierarchal and groups can have objects “overlapping” (like in a poly-hierarchy).

#3

Hi,

I think it’s possible because in Object menu -> Parent -> Object (ctrl P)
you can make a list of objects and with a loop, you can hide all this list.

import bpy 

bpy.ops.object.parent_sel('OBJECT')
hideObjects = 1
for obj in bpy.context.selected_objects: 
    obj.hide = hideObjects

Kubeczek77 don’t want speak “group” but “child” in outliner.
I mean it’s possible to hide all child of a hierarchie with a script but I don’t know an actual add-on to make this.

But about Group, it’s possible to hide all elements of a group with outliner setup to “Group” (popup menu)
but it’s impossible to have sub-group!

Just a sub-child is possible in hierarchical outliner.

#4

Does anybody? The sheer volume of objects visible in a mono-hierarchical list can be overwhelming.

#5

Ctrl + Click?

#6

Ha yes Thks CoDEmanX, I didn’t know that, very useful!