Thank you Apec - it’s moving forward! But if this id function is not available anywhere else than Outliner, that’s pretty limited - hope they’ll change it soon!
I don’t know if it’s allowed to changing and reuploading your code in this forum, but I was so frustrated lacking this simple feature in Blender (I simply can not live/work without it) I decided to push it as far as my poor skills allow me. So I’ve spend all day trying and failing and finally it’s even closer for real use - at least from my workflow point of view. But please don’t laugh at me, it’s probably ultra messy - but it works - kinda. the goal was to have this toggle functionality in outliner and 3dview(or else) as well. So now it’s branching based on the hovering area - outliner uses Ids other uses your older setup. Of course limitation is, one has to stay and perform the script in the Outliner or 3dview, but not crossing actions in both places. That wouldn’t work, but I guess with this simple rule I can use the toogle without to much harm anyway - I’ll try and let you know! It also creates scene property where it’s storing the hidden objects - probably there is a waaay more elegant solution… One think I wasn’t able to fix - in outliner ID method, unhidden object lost their selection state (in 3dview), which is bad - better would be to retain selection. But when I’ve tried to implement it in the loop, it started to behave weirdly - maybe you would know how to do it.
I’ve forgotten - I’ve also changed the hotkey, because Y is mapped in many places… And even in Blender maual they are iforming they have F-keys mostly reserved for custom hotkeys. F4 works the best for me, I am trying to use it in every app for this toggle/hide task, if it’s possible.
import bpy
from bpy.types import Operator
# Add-on info
bl_info = {
"name": "Toggle Hide Selected",
"author": "APEC - Kuban Edit_02",
"version": (0, 0, 1),
"blender": (2, 92, 0),
"location": "Outliner > 'F4' key",
"description": "",
"doc_url": "",
"tracker_url": "",
"category": "Outliner"
}
class OUTLINER_OT_toggle_hide(Operator):
"""Toggle hide/unhide for selected objects"""
bl_idname = "outliner.toggle_hide"
bl_label = "Toggle Hide"
bl_options = {'REGISTER', 'UNDO'}
# @classmethod
# def poll(self, context):
# ar = context.screen.areas
# __class__.area = next(
# (a for a in ar if a.type == 'OUTLINER'), None)
# return __class__.area
def execute(self, context):
#check the scene toogle property and make it if it's not there
try:
print("checking scene property")
bpy.context.scene["hide_toggle"]
print("hide_toggle scene property - present")
except:
print ("NOPENOPE")
bpy.context.scene['_RNA_UI'] = bpy.context.scene.get('_RNA_UI', {})
bpy.context.scene["hide_toggle"] = "nothing"
bpy.context.scene['_RNA_UI']["MyProp"] = {"name": "Hide toggle",
"description": "ToolTip",
}
print("hide_toggle scene property - created")
#start toggleing based on the area
area_type = bpy.context.area.type
if area_type == 'OUTLINER':
#=========== toggle for OUTLINER ==========
context = bpy.context
visible = []
notvisible = []
ids = bpy.context.selected_ids
for o in ids:
if o.visible_get():
visible.append(o)
if not o.visible_get():
notvisible.append(o)
if visible:
print(
"Visible:\n",
[o.name for o in visible])
if notvisible:
print(
"Not visible:\n",
[o.name for o in notvisible])
for o in visible:
o.hide_set(True)
o.hide_viewport = o.hide_render = True
for o in notvisible:
o.hide_set(False)
o.hide_viewport = o.hide_render = False
#o.select_set(True)
else:
#=========== toggle for 3d view and ===============
objs = bpy.context.view_layer.objects
sel_objs = {o for o in objs if o.select_get()}
#-------------
if bpy.context.scene["hide_toggle"] == 'nothing' and len(sel_objs) <= 0:
print("nothing stored or selected to unhide")
else:
if bpy.context.scene["hide_toggle"] != 'nothing' and len(sel_objs) <= 0:
#retrive data from scene property - hidden objects
hid_objs = eval(bpy.context.scene["hide_toggle"])
#clear the scene property
bpy.context.scene["hide_toggle"] = 'nothing'
#unhide stored objects
for o in hid_objs:
print(o)
o.hide_set(False)
o.hide_viewport = o.hide_render = False
o.select_set(True)
else:
#hide selected objects
for o in sel_objs:
o.hide_set(True)
o.hide_viewport = o.hide_render = True
bpy.context.scene["hide_toggle"] = str(sel_objs)
#==============================================
return {'FINISHED'}
###########################################################################################
##################################### Register ############################################
###########################################################################################
addon_keymaps = []
def register():
bpy.utils.register_class(OUTLINER_OT_toggle_hide)
wm = bpy.context.window_manager
kc = wm.keyconfigs.addon.keymaps
km = kc.get("Object Mode")
if not km:
km = kc.new("Object Mode")
kmi = km.keymap_items.new("outliner.toggle_hide", "F4", "PRESS")
addon_keymaps.append((km, kmi))
km = kc.get("Outliner")
if not km:
km = kc.new("Outliner", space_type="OUTLINER")
kmi = km.keymap_items.new("outliner.toggle_hide", "F4", "PRESS")
addon_keymaps.append((km, kmi))
def unregister():
bpy.utils.unregister_class(OUTLINER_OT_toggle_hide)
for km, kmi in addon_keymaps:
km.keymap_items.remove(kmi)
addon_keymaps.clear()
if __name__ == "__main__":
register()