Blender

How to detect if Local View is on in 3D View window

Nikita

The following command returns the 3D View areas list with enabled Local View mode:

 

Where are the icons for managing objects visibility in the Outliner window in Blender 2.8

Nikita

In the latest Blender 2.80 builds, the visibility control icons are disappeared from the Outliner window.

They were not removed, they are just hidden from the interface by default. To return them to their usual place click the button with the funnel image and mark the icons you need to display.

After closing the dialog box, the icons will appear in their places.

Changing objects visibility in the viewport and while rendering

Nikita

The easiest way to hide and show rendering objects is to assign animation keys to them. To do this, move the cursor over the eye icon (visibility in the viewport) or camera (visibility when rendering) in the Outliner window, press the “i” key and then manage the created condition in the Graph Editor like the ordinary animation keys.

But this method is not always available. For example, we cannot assign visibility animation keys for collections, Blender will generate errors like:

“hide_viewport” property cannot be animated

or

“hide_render” property can not be animated

However, using the Blender Python API, we can control the visibility of such objects.

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Where did the Remove Doubles in Blender 2.80 disappear

Nikita

The convenient Blender 2.7 feature to remove duplicated vertices “Remove Doubles” has disappeared from the Blender 2.80 menu. In 2.8 it was renamed to “By Distance” and moved to the Vertex – Merge Vertices menu.

In Blender 2.83 this menu was moved to the context menu, activated by the right mouse click. And quick call by the “m” hot-key.