Blender Question: Showing ONE Hidden Object

[FalTorPan]

As a perpetual Blender noob, I have a noob-style question.

Let's say I have a scene with a lot of hidden objects, and I only want to show one of them. How do I do that?

The only way I know of to show a hidden object is, in a 3D Window, select Object | Show/Hide Objects | Show Hidden. This isn't ideal, because it shows all hidden objects. I'd like to show just one.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Tallguy]

As a perpetual Blender noob, I have a noob-style question.

Let's say I have a scene with a lot of hidden objects, and I only want to show one of them. How do I do that?

The only way I know of to show a hidden object is, in a 3D Window, select Object | Show/Hide Objects | Show Hidden. This isn't ideal, because it shows all hidden objects. I'd like to show just one.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

If I'm understanding your question correctly, there is no way to unhide one. A couple of solutions come to mind. One: Make sure the objects you want to hide are selected (deselect the one you want to keep) and hide them again.

Not knowing your goal for hiding these objects I'll ask anyway: Are you keeping objects on different layers? That always makes it easy for me to know what's where. I can keep the couple of objects I'm actively working on on one layer, the rest on another. (For some reason lost to the mists of time I always keep my camera on 5 and my main lights on 6. Alt-0 is usually kind of a "junk drawer" for me. Go fig.)

 

[FalTorPan]

Thanks for the reply!

I had most objects organized into layers, but I've grown accustomed to the select functionality of the ancient version (2.5!) of 3D Studio MAX that I use. In that application's select menu, you can bring up a dialog box which shows all objects -- hidden or not. You can filter the display list by object type, and select or unselect as many objects as you wish, hiding and unhiding them, etc. It's an added level of flexibility that I'm accustomed to using.