Thx gents. I guess the dreaded follow-up question would be, is there no way
to "globally" simulate Maya's default handling of "unkeyed" hirc visibility.
In the end this pretty much says, any child/branch hidden locally will
remain hidden unless altered "locally", irregardless of its parent/siblings
state. As suggested, a Node selected parent would seemingly allow this to
occur, but alas it only seems to effect is own vis.
IMHOP SI has done a superb job making XSI Maya friendly, hopefully I'm just
missing something in the Docs or someone is looking at it.
Thanks again
Paul
> You're right, it is. My bad.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > XSI inheritence is very powerful, but I don't think it works
> > with visibility. Visibility is always a localised property.
> > Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> > Chris
> >
> > kim aldis wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >>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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