mcjHideAllBut ( also includes the secret "Pivot Cam Toward button" )

mCasual

for DS 1,2,3,4 ==========> https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjhideallbut

following a request by Ruphuss, a script to hide all the objects in the scene except the selected ones

then i added a "Show all button"

a "Hide Selected" button

a "Frame selected"

and a "Pivot Cam Toward" button,

it aims your current camera toward the selected object

BUT does not move the camera

AND only modifies the Y-Rotate rotation

mCasual

Ready !

for DS 1,2,3,4 ==========> https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjhideallbut

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image Below is unrelated and was made around the time i was working on the bullet physics kit, and Miley's video came out

figure 2 , titles "AikoStyle" is there to just slightly annoy the kind viewer

figure 3 is a rather old promotional picture for mcjTeleBlender

ok ok ok i stop ! :)

Ruphuss

really you are quick, casual
will try that
thank you very much

Ruphuss

ok this works very well with different objects
very nice so far
now my main intention was to do this with bones
say I would just like to see the pinky of a figure or the teeth or tongue
sorry that I did not make that clear enough

Ruphuss

....and more of your lovely Ami please
especially with voiceover
(who is that voice?)
do not tell me its a machine

mCasual

ruphuss said:

ok this works very well with different objects
very nice so far
now my main intention was to do this with bones
say I would just like to see the pinky of a figure or the teeth or tongue
sorry that I did not make that clear enough

i'll add bones tomorrow, i didn't think this through :)

mCasual

ruphuss said:

....and more of your lovely Ami please
especially with voiceover
(who is that voice?)
do not tell me its a machine

yes it's a .... well not totally synthetic voice, the base material was recorded from a real human http://www.nextup.com/attnv.html

mCasual

- Update - Update - Update - Update - Update - Update - Update - Update -

November 5th 2014 1:37 pm -

bones and skeletons now take part in the hide and show game

the 'Hide Selected' button is now a 'Hide/Show Selected' button

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjhideallbut

Figure 1 : totally unrelated archived render from 2005 !

that's part of a cat's plane and part of a video-movie that is not made .... yet :)

Ruphuss

Casual said:

ruphuss said:

....and more of your lovely Ami please
especially with voiceover
(who is that voice?)
do not tell me its a machine

yes it's a .... well not totally synthetic voice, the base material was recorded from a real human http://www.nextup.com/attnv.html

very useful link

Ruphuss

can it be you uploaded the old script because it doesn't work on bones for me ?
tried to see only the head but it vanishes also

mCasual

ruphuss said:

can it be you uploaded the old script because it doesn't work on bones for me ?
tried to see only the head but it vanishes also

sorry about this i'll fix it today

the reason is .... the script sees that the head is selected, then it goes through the scenes hundreds of nodes and finds the figure which owns it and goes "well that's a bone or a skeleton, and, it's not selected, is it? no it's not" and proceeds to hide it

i probably tested it only in DS3

mCasual

(second) Update -

the Hide-all-but-selected now works for bones in DS4

the problem was that mcjhideallbut would correctly not-hide the selected bone but would then go about hiding the (non-selected) skeleton

so now the script builds a list of skeletons that own any selected bone before starting to hide things

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjhideallbut

Ruphuss

works all fine now
a big thank you again

mCasual

UPDATE 

August 13th 2018 7:44PM - you can now select just the root/skeleton of a figure and there wont be issues like the bones are all hidden even if the root isnt and the result is we cant see a dang thing

the solution since 2014 was to select all the bones, magine the work !

mCasual

Sorry Sorry .... 3rd version should be The One

still here - dowload area at the bottom, click the down-arrop button

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts4/mcjhideallbut

August 13th 2018 noon - version 3 fixed issues with selected bones with unselected skeletons

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the idea is, when modeling a dress, you want to export the figure parts under the dress and not carry the weight of things like the head hand and feet

so you select chest collars, abdomens hips amd thighs , and use the script an bam you are ready to use daz's built-in exporter

 

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@mCasual

Thank you very much for this great tool! Really appreciated.

I just found this tool and it works very well.

One more function that I wish it can has is: the main function 'Hide All But Selected', is it possible to add an 'undo' only for this hide, not for everything?

I'm not mean the undo function in the DAZ menu. For example, I made a character with different dress put on her, then I hide many dress and only left one on her body, now I click the 'Hide All But Selected' botton, the character hide, and I did some other steps such like adjust something, then I want her back, I can not use DAZ menu undo for it, but when I click the 'Show All Object' botton, everything are back include all dress, but I only want her back with the latest dress, which is the accurate 'undo' of the 'Hide All But Selected'.

Could you update the scripts for this function?

Or could you give a script scentense so that I can add to the script myself?

Many thanks!