Or, select any one - or more - of the child nodes, open the transient
explorer and select the visibilty property. It'll ask you if you want to
localise the property, say yes.
If you're not aware of the rules of hierarchical inheritance in XSI check
out the docs on the subject. Your eyes will open.
K.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Oscar Juarez
> Sent: 31-January-2006 00:40
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Children maintaining visibility status
> independent of parent.
>
> Select the Cube in Node mode. not branch and unhide it... the
> children remains hidden
>
> Paul Martin wrote:
> >
> > Hi,,
> >
> > Does anyone know of a pref or env variable that would allow
> a child to
> > maintain it's "unkeyed" visibility status irregardless of how it's
> > parent visibility is manipulated.
> >
> > I'm speaking interactively, nothing to do with keys. Ex.. 4
> cubes are
> > parented to a nul, 2 visible and 2 hidden. If you Branch select the
> > nul, hide it then unhide it, all four cubes are now
> visible.. In many
> > other apps, this same example results in the hidden
> children remaining
> > hidden unless specifically selected and unhidden.
> >
> > I don't remember this being an issue last time I was here but I do
> > spend a lot of time in Maya.. Can this be altered?
> >
> > Tia Paul
> >
>
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