GSoC 2020: Outliner Discussion and Suggestions

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@Breccia

It happened to me and probably to many beginners to render a scene and see all the objects that I have hidden.
Because I didn’t know I had to toggle in EVERY hidden object to “hide in the render scene”.

I suggested this here, but it doesn’t seem very popular (Blender is a tool for experienced Blender users, it’s not built to be an intuitive tool for beginners to learn unfortunately):

Outliner's default visbility toggle should override the other hidden ones

Disclaimer: Someone must have posted about this before (perhaps even me), but I couldn’t find it using search right now. PROBLEM The Hide toggle is the only visbility toggle shown in the Blender outliner by default. It’s the only thing new users see, and they’re always surprised when hidden objects appear in renders. SOLUTION Disable in Viewport and Disable in Renders are advanced features. Disable in Viewport, in conjuction with Hide in vewport, is a very advanced feature. Whichev…