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Hi,

Would it be possible to be able to assign render properties such as the "Hidden from camera" on a linked block instance from an external .3dm file? On my block instances the options are greyed out as such:




I'ts hard to use with "Full shadow pass technique" described here otherwise:

http://support.nextlimit.com/display/ma ... ow+channel

Best regards

- Björn

Not sure, but I'll check it out.

wouldn't it be possible if you go to the original linked file and use the hide to camera there?
that's at least the way I do it with internal blocks (I rarely use external blocks)

I noticed an issue with block files: if you use the remove all unused materials, it removes the materials in blocks as well, is that right?

Hi,

Yes I could go into the individual blocks but that is very cumbersome for me. In my render scene file I only have three things (external blocks) and for the shadow pass I would like to hide dem from the camera. These files/blocks, are machine which themselfes are around 500 mb rhino files with thousands of objects. I want to avoid having to open them and select everything in them and hide that from camera, and then having to do the same again to turn it on whenever I want to do a test render with a shadow pass.

I noticed an issue with block files: if you use the remove all unused materials, it removes the materials in blocks as well, is that right?

Yes, i've seen this to. Only was to restore is to open the file again (if the blocks are linked/external )

- Björn

I have added support for Hide-from-x flags on block instances in 2.6.15 -- please see the announcement thread for more details.

Nice, Thanks!