Maya Alt+H (Hide Unselected) Not Working

neverwander

Hey guys, hoping you can help me out with this. Been having a problem where pressing Alt+H to hide all unselected items no longer works. Ctrl+H (hide selected) and Ctrl+Shift+H (unhide last hidden object) still work.

FYI using Maya 2013 in Windows 7 64-bit. I've tried resetting my preferences and reinstalling Maya, but neither worked. Any ideas?

neverwander

I've found the hotkey editor, and set it so Ctrl+u now does it, and that worked. Alt+h was assigned, but still didn't work. Not sure what the heck is going on there. Tried multiple keyboards to see if it was somehow a ghosting issue, but it still didn't work. XP

Bartalon

I was always annoyed with the hotkeys associated with hiding/unhiding objects in Maya, so I wrote a small script to just use Ctrl + H to toggle visibility of selections, as well as unhide the last hidden object if you have no objects selected. With this you can also select multiple hidden and unhidden objects and it will invert the visibility of both groups.

string $lastHidden[];
string $hideselect[] = `ls -sl`;
string $vis[] = { };
$count = `size $hideselect`; 
for ($i=0; $i < $count; $i++) { 
      $vis[$i] = ($hideselect[$i] + ".visibility");
      if ( !`getAttr $vis[$i]` ) { 
          setAttr $vis[$i] 1;
     }
     else { 
          setAttr $vis[$i] 0;
          $lastHidden = `ls -sl`;
     }
} 
if ( $count == 0 ) { 
     $count = `size $lastHidden`;
     if ( $count != 0 ) { 
          for ($i=0; $i < $count; $i++) { 
               setAttr ( $lastHidden[$i] + ".visibility" ) 1;
          } 
          select $lastHidden;
     }
     else { print "No previously hidden objects."; }
 }