Medit also has an eye icon for object visibility in it’s heirachical view.

Any chance of a ‘SET PARENT’ button in the Outliner. I miss this this feature from Multigen and I haven’t seen it in any other 3D package.

http://www.create.ucsb.edu/drive/images/front.jpg

Basically any new object will be created under the parent you select. It makes for very tidy scenes with less cleaning up.

(And a horizontal scroll bar!)

cheers

Some more features in outliner that would be great:
It would be great to be able to solo an object or another way to do that (in a few more steps) is to make an object invisible and then toggle by an outliner menu choice (so everything thats visible is invisible and vice versa.

In your current implementation, can you select multiple objects and drag /drop parent them at the same time? That would be nice.

Also ctrl drag to copy drag.

Also all of this functionality transfering to the OOPS schematic would be awesome.

cheers and more power to you.
Zoogie

(Oh, and check the CSS on your “preview comment” page. It seems a little out of whack.)

@Simhar: I don’t disagree that this would be a great feature, but did you know you can assign a constraint by clicking the target, shift-clicking the object to be constrained, and then pressing Control+Alt+C?

if you have the chance to see Cinelerra in action, look at the icons below each track name. Clicking on one and dragging on the others of the same type, below or above it, the same action take place. That is un-selecting that icon and dragging makes all the others to be unselected.

This is incredibly comfortable and fast on a few tracks, imagine selecting a bunch of objects with a hit (when working with particles as we do, or in the first ED scene, all those cables flying).

Adding more interaction in the outliner is definitely a good thing, go on :)

Cheers

The fact that layers overlap is actually important in 3D to manage complex scenes. For example: to show an entire room (group) but then hide an entire wall with all it’s objects (group), And layers do overlap currently in Blender (one object can be on a many layers), it’s just very difficult to manage them.

I have been thinking about this for a while already but have no idea how to edit blender code.

Thank you very much!

cheers

btw: the method i described, is the method, cinema4d uses it… there it’s called smartpointer. for further interests, you can download a demo.

now again: great work…

actually, if you want to use one object in relationship to another objekt (e.g.: track-to-constraint, armature, curve-taper, curve-array,…), you have to TYPE the name of that object. It would be fine, if you can drag-n-drop that object from the outliner directly to the text-field to connect it.

An example: you want a camera track-to-constrained to an empty. so give the camera a track-to-constraint, take the object “empty” from the outliner and put it into the “OB: “-textfield in the constraint-panel.

i hope i could describe it well, for further questions please write back.
Thanx for the freat work, you’re doing. Fantastic.

S.

For drag and drop it’d be really great to have access to copying materials/mesh data/constraints/etc/etc, but as I mentioned, the rest of the Blender code doesn’t really support that well and needs to be massaged/rewritten a bit, which isn’t too easy, at least for me.

Jakub: Perhaps those ‘eye’ icons I’m using there might seem familiar ;) And Da Vinci? I very much doubt it :P Most of the things I do in Blender is really not that difficult, perhaps less so than other artists might do in scripting, or web programming, etc. I think a large part of the barrier to working in C in a standalone app is psychological…

I’m very impressed by the outliner work. Very useful stuff.

Btw you and Larry Ewing seem like the da Vincis of the 21st century. Great artists, brilliant hackers/engineers :)