Night Views

Fountain Effect

Freezing objects

Freezing prevents the objects from being manipulated without hiding them from view. when objects are frozen, they turn dark grey and can not be selected until they are unfrozen.

To Freeze an object:

Select an object

Open the Display command Panel.

Open the Freeze rollout, click Freeze selected, The object freezes.

Freeze Unselected freezes all visible objects that are unselected and unfrozen.

 Freeze by Name brings up a list of unhidden and unfrozen objects to freeze.

Freeze by Hit allows you to freeze objects by clicking on them.

Rendering with hidden lines

Hide an objects by category

Hide by Category allows you to hide objects according to type. I usually hide lights &  cameras when i am not working on them so that I can zoom to the extents of a scene more closely.

UnHide an object

To Unhide an object:

Click Unhide by Name.

A list of all the hidden objects appears

Select the object that you want to unhide.

click ok

The object reappears

To unhide all objects:

In the Hide rollout, click Unhide All.

All the hidden object reappear. 

or the best way to hide and unhide your object is right click on your object ..& set it accordingly.

Hiding objects

Hiding objects help you to manage complex scenes by simplifying the viewport display & speeding up the redraw time. Hidden objects disppear from view and can not be selected until they are hidden.

To hide an object:

Select an object that you want to hide.

Open the Hide roll out of the

 Display command Panel

In the Hide rollout, click Hide Selected. The object disappears from view.

Hide Unselected hides unselected objects.

Hide by name allows you to select objects from a list.

Hide by Hit allows you to hide objects by clicking on them.

Frozen objects cannot be hidden unless you enable  Hide Frozen Objects.

Noise Effect

Water Effect