WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.666 Welcome to Hiding Un-Needed Objects! 2 00:00:02.666 --> 00:00:06.666 In this video, we're going to discover it's useful when 3 00:00:06.666 --> 00:00:10.666 working on larger and more complex assemblies or scenes. 4 00:00:10.666 --> 00:00:14.666 So, at the moment, we're only dealing with a chess set, but it's good to grasp 5 00:00:14.666 --> 00:00:18.666 this notion before you start dealing with something even more complex, 6 00:00:18.666 --> 00:00:22.666 where perhaps parts are hidden behind one another. And we're going to control 7 00:00:22.666 --> 00:00:26.666 whether you're hiding groups of objects, as well as individuals 8 00:00:26.666 --> 00:00:30.666 themselves. So let's go play with this over in Blender! 9 00:00:31.200 --> 00:00:34.666 Alright, so here we are in Blender! The first thing I'm going to 10 00:00:34.666 --> 00:00:38.666 do is just free up a bit of space. Oh, that didn't work terribly 11 00:00:38.666 --> 00:00:42.666 well! Let's hide that and hide that. There we go! 12 00:00:42.666 --> 00:00:46.666 And switch over to Solid, no particular reason other than I can see 13 00:00:46.666 --> 00:00:50.666 what's selected and what isn't. So, as you can tell here, as you're 14 00:00:50.666 --> 00:00:54.666 selecting things, you get the orange marker around them. And to hide something, well it's an 15 00:00:54.666 --> 00:00:58.666 object operation. So we go to Object on the 3D Editor 16 00:00:58.666 --> 00:01:02.666 Header, and I'm going to have to scroll up with the low resolution I'm running. 17 00:01:02.666 --> 00:01:06.666 And here we have Show and Hide, and we can see there are three options, 18 00:01:06.666 --> 00:01:10.666 when it comes to hiding. So there's Show Hidden and that will show everything that you've hidden so 19 00:01:10.666 --> 00:01:14.666 far, bringing everything back into view. With hide Selected, so if you've 20 00:01:14.666 --> 00:01:18.666 selected an object or multiple objects, you can hide them all at 21 00:01:18.666 --> 00:01:22.666 once. And then, finally Hide Unselected, so that's like a 22 00:01:22.666 --> 00:01:26.666 inverse hidden. So if I only wanted this pawn here, 23 00:01:26.666 --> 00:01:30.666 I could select the pawn like it is already, go object, 24 00:01:30.666 --> 00:01:34.666 Show and Hide, and Hide_Unselected. 25 00:01:34.666 --> 00:01:38.666 And there we go, we just have the pawn 26 00:01:38.666 --> 00:01:42.666 visible. Now, of course, we can bring everything back with Alt and H, 27 00:01:42.666 --> 00:01:46.666 and then, we can select a couple of pawns here, let's say, and press H 28 00:01:46.666 --> 00:01:50.666 to hide them away, so it's very powerful! Now, there's another option for 29 00:01:50.666 --> 00:01:54.666 doing this, over in the Outliner. So if we bring everything 30 00:01:54.666 --> 00:01:58.666 back into view, with Alt and H or do the menu option, 31 00:01:58.666 --> 00:02:02.666 there if you want to. OK, so we have our white 32 00:02:02.666 --> 00:02:06.666 pieces all grouped together and there's a little eye next to them. So you can 33 00:02:06.666 --> 00:02:10.666 go to... I'm expanding the hierarchy here. You can go to where it says White Bishops 34 00:02:10.666 --> 00:02:14.666 and click the little eye, and it will start turning things off. 35 00:02:14.666 --> 00:02:18.666 But why hasn't it turned the bishops off? Well underneath 36 00:02:18.666 --> 00:02:22.666 that you have the bishops themselves. So that's grouped, 37 00:02:22.666 --> 00:02:26.666 it has an empty called White Bishops, but it's not going to hid everything underneath. 38 00:02:26.666 --> 00:02:30.666 Similar to what we explored before, you're going to have to hold down Control, 39 00:02:30.666 --> 00:02:34.666 as you click the eye to hide everything underneath that 40 00:02:34.666 --> 00:02:38.666 hierarchy. So if we have the WhitePieces and hold down Control, 41 00:02:38.666 --> 00:02:42.666 as we're clicking the eye, we can hide all of the White 42 00:02:42.666 --> 00:02:46.666 Pieces, if you've got that hierarchy. If you've not, you can 43 00:02:46.666 --> 00:02:50.666 go down and, for instance, go down and hide all the White Pawns or hide all the White Bishops, 44 00:02:50.666 --> 00:02:54.666 whilst holding down Control itself. Otherwise, you'd 45 00:02:54.666 --> 00:02:58.666 have to go in and click them individually like that. So if you've got a 46 00:02:58.666 --> 00:03:02.666 good naming structure, but it's quite difficult to select items, you can 47 00:03:02.666 --> 00:03:06.666 just hide them through this Outliner Menu or hierarchy itself. 48 00:03:06.666 --> 00:03:09.566 OK guys, it's challenge time! 49 00:03:09.566 --> 00:03:13.500 Now, there are going to be several ways that you could accomplish this, I don't 50 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:17.500 mind how you do it, but I'd like you to hide everything but the 51 00:03:17.500 --> 00:03:21.500 board. So hide all the chess pieces, in our scene, 52 00:03:21.500 --> 00:03:25.500 leaving just the checkered squares, so far, and we're going to build out the rest of 53 00:03:25.500 --> 00:03:29.500 the board in a bit. So pause the video now and give that a go! 54 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:33.500 OK guys, welcome back! let's hop straight 55 00:03:33.500 --> 00:03:35.600 back over into Blender! 56 00:03:35.600 --> 00:03:37.100 OK, so there are a couple 57 00:03:37.100 --> 00:03:41.100 of options! As you've probably seen already, you could just control 58 00:03:41.100 --> 00:03:45.100 click the WhitePieces over here, 59 00:03:45.100 --> 00:03:49.100 and when we've Control clicked them, they all disappear leaving 60 00:03:49.100 --> 00:03:53.100 just the board itself. Alternatively, you could select the board 61 00:03:53.100 --> 00:03:57.100 and do Shift and H, and hide everything but the board. 62 00:03:57.100 --> 00:04:01.100 Remember there's still the lamps in our scene, as well 63 00:04:01.100 --> 00:04:05.100 as the Camera, and, at the moment, it gives us a nice clean workspace, if 64 00:04:05.100 --> 00:04:09.100 we hide absolutely everything but the board itself. Brilliant! 65 00:04:09.100 --> 00:04:12.633 So now, you've done that, please share in the discussions, and 66 00:04:12.633 --> 00:04:15.266 I will see you in the next lecture!