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Easy and quick way to hide all except the eyes?

3DthiSS3DthiSS Posts: 146
edited December 1969 in New Users

Hi
is there some easy and quick way to hide everything but the eyes while using Daz 4.6....I understand that by clicking on the "eye" symbols in the Scene tab portions of the body will disappear...but is there not a way to make the eyes reappear after clicking the main "eye" symbol for Genesis 2 as opposed to having to go down the tree and click every damned "eye" symbol except the ones for the eyes...hope this isn't too confusing lol...the reason I want to do this is so I can easily and quickly see how the eyes render while using Reality 2.5 in Daz 4.6

thanx

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  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited August 2013

    No, you must select SUB areas each on there own, or the main one. You would need a script file written to do what you are looking for. It is not built into DAZ Studio to do that at this time.

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    You could expand Genesis in the Scene tab, click the root and shift-click the last to select them all, ctrl-click the eyes to unselect them, then go to the Parameters tab and click on Visible to make everything selected not visible.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    Just to expand on Mike's answer, to avoid expanding Genesis one by one you can right click it > from selection > expand all.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I was thinking they were hunting a way too turn on and off parts without needing the expanded list. I could be wrong. I still think a script to just click them on or off is a nice idea.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    They were probably also under the assumption you had to expand the tree one node at a time.

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    True, I'm not normal. I right click in almost all programs just to see if I get a pop up.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    I do the same thing. As a child I was such a button clicker. Telephones, science museums, radios.. whatever I could get my tiny little hands on.

    As an adult, I'm the same way, except it's translated to software. I inspect EVERYTHING in a program just to see what things do.

  • msorrelsmsorrels Posts: 44
    edited December 1969

    I have a DS Script "Toggle Visibility" that will hide/unhide an entire figure (no matter what part you have selected) it also hides any conformed clothing. You could use it (I have it mapped to a toolbar button) and then find the part you want and just click it's eyeball toggle.

    http://www.pontari.com/Products/DazStudio/Misc/

  • 3DthiSS3DthiSS Posts: 146
    edited August 2013

    thanks for the replies
    Mikes suggestion worked although I had to do it abit differently in order to get the results I wanted...I shift clicked all of genesis 2 and switched off the visible tab in Parameters....I then left clicked the eyes and then left clicked the Genesis 2 Female root "eye" symbol to make the eyes appear....works for me.
    thanx

    btw..Msorrels will your script work in Daz 4.6?

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  • ShelLuserShelLuser Posts: 749
    edited December 1969

    Hoping this can be useful too, not as fast as scripting obviously, but this works pretty well for me..

    I basically click once on the root node in the scene pane, then use the option "select children" in the context menu after which I control-click the root node again. This will deselect the root node itself, and expand it (to show the child elements).

    Now simply use "Visible" in the Parameters tab ("display"). Then go back to the scene, find the eyes, and make then visible.

    Because the root node was kept visible too you'll immediately see the eyes appear.

    Obviously this doesn't work too well if you have an element which has another as parent (then you'd need to manually make the "child element" itself visible together with the eyes.

    Hope this can give some ideas too.

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