Hide By Category Rollout

The Hide By Category rollout toggles the display of objects by category (geometry, cameras, lights, and so on).

• Display panel > Hide By Category rollout

By default, 3ds Max displays all objects in the scene. Objects hidden by category do not get evaluated in the scene, so hiding objects by category improves performance.

Interface

Show Renderable Only

The Show Renderable Only checkbox allows you to easily toggle the display of non-renderable objects. Turn on the checkbox to hide all non-renderable objects in the scene. Turn off the checkbox to show non-renderable along side renderable objects. Default=off.

Category/Filter

You can use the Category tab to select objects to hide by category, or use the Filter tab to select and hide sub-categories.

You can choose between having the Category and Filter lists show All categories or only Scene Contents. By default, All is selected and the lists contain all possible categories of objects to hide. When Scene Contents gets toggled on, only categories currently in the scene populate the lists.

Turn on the checkboxes to hide objects of that category. You can use the All, None, and Invert buttons to quickly change the settings of the checkboxes.

All/None/Invert

• All

  Hides everything in the scene.

• None

  Unhides everything in the scene.

• Invert

  Hides everything that is visible and unhides everything currently hidden.

Category List:

• Geometry

  Hides all geometry in the scene.

• Cameras

  Hides all cameras in the scene.

• Lights

  Hides all lights in the scene.

• Shapes

  Hides all shapes in the scene.

• Helpers

  Hides all helpers in the scene.

• Space Warp

  Hides all space warps in the scene.

• Particle Systems

  Hides all particle systems in the scene.

• Bone Objects

  Hides all bones in the scene.