Isolate Selection Toggle

Brick Top

Hello guys,

I use the 'Isolate Selection Toggle' to hide all objects except the one I'm working on. Problem is: when I use that toggle, I also hide my reference plane. Is there anyway to bypass that problem? So that my reference plane never gets hidden? I can always use the freeze/unfreeze options but I hope there is a quicker way to do so.

Thanks in advance!

B.T.

Bartalon

Assuming you're working in Maya, you can isolate a group node and anything inside the group will be added to your isolation view. Conversely, anything removed from the group will be hidden from view. You can easily MMB drag and drop items into and out of groups using the Outliner, which bypasses any reference/template selection locks of layer settings.

If you work with your Outliner open anyway, it should be much faster than having to fiddle with layer settings.

Brick Top

Oh my fault guys, I forget to tell I work with Max 2014.

So hiding/unhiding is my best shot?

Bryan Cavett

That is your best bet without a bit of scripting. You could also set the viewport background to display your image.

Arahnoid

You can use this simple script line

unhide $object_name

Change "object_name" to whatever is name your reference plane

You can save it as the macro script for the future use just keep the same name for you reference plane

Or more convient one click macro

-- Enter isolation mode
IsolateSelection.EnterIsolateSelectionMode()
-- Unhide reference plane
unhide $ReferencePlane

poopipe

I just keep the layer pallette open or use outliner 2 for this sort of stuff. Makes handling visibility a lot easier