damn, you're right. That's not right, you should be able to key everything.
You can't key partitition visibility either but you can add a visibility
property, as you can to a group but that doesn't seem to override the group
visibility. damn!!
_____
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
Chris Marshall
Sent: 31-January-2006 16:50
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Children maintaining visibility status independent of parent.
Keying hierarchy visibility in XSI has always, and as far as I know still
is, a headache.
Groups used to be the fallback position, but I'm pretty sure that changed a
couple of versions ago, when they removed the ability to key these
properties (from what I remember).
I think Partitions are the only way to do this.
Chris
kim aldis wrote:
I've just tried removing the visibility property from child nodes and that
doesn't work so I'm guessing there's no way to have visibility inherit. This
rings some bells from very early releases of xsi.
The only thing I can suggest is that you take a look at layers, groups and
partitions. There's a great deal of power with these, although they're not
so hierarchy savvy so they may not suit.
