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Select Children

When on, highlighting a parent object also highlights its children.

Select Influences

When on and you highlight an object with influences, the influencing objects also highlight.

Choosing this command turns off Select Dependents, if on.

Select Dependents

When on and you highlight an object that influences another, the object’s dependents also highlight.

Choosing this command turns off Select Influences, if on.

NoteWhen Select Dependents is on, highlighting an object whose dependent has dependents of its own highlights those additional dependents as well. For example, consider three spheres that are instances of each other, one of which is constrained to a spline path. Highlighting the spline with Select Dependents on also highlights the constrained sphere and its dependents. The other two spheres are not dependents of the spline, but because they are dependents of the constrained sphere, all four objects highlight as a result.

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Find Case Sensitive

When on, searching with the Find field results in only exact matches with the case in the search phrase.

Find Using Wildcards

When on, searching with the Find field lets you use standard wildcards: ? stands in for a single character, while * stands in for multiple characters. For example, if you have objects named Set11, Set21, Set31, and Set34, using the search phrase “Set?1” with Find Using Wildcards on will highlight the first three but not the fourth. Searching for “Set*” will highlight all four.

Find Using Regular Expressions

When on, you can use regular expressions in the Find field.

For example, to highlight all items that do not start with upper-case “A”, turn on Find Case Sensitive and Find Using Regular Expressions, and use this search term: [^A]. Or to highlight all items that start with “sph” and end with “1”, turn on Find Using Regular Expressions, and use this search term: sph.*1. Similarly, to find all light targets, use .*Target.

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Sync Selection

When on, selecting an object in the viewport highlights it in Scene Explorer and vice-versa.

NoteWhen Sync Selection is on, if multiple objects are selected they appear as highlighted entries in Scene Explorer. If you click one of these highlighted entries in Scene Explorer, that object remains selected, but the others are deselected.

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Search

Opens the Advanced Search dialog, which lets you set up and use complex Boolean search terms.

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Display Children

When chosen, displays linked objects as parent-child hierarchies, with the children as expandable branches below their parent objects. When not chosen (the default), lists all objects in the specified sort order with no regard to hierarchies.

Display Influences

When chosen and you highlight an object with influences, contents of any text-based fields of the influential objects appear in blue. Default = Not chosen.

Note Select Influences, when on, overrides this feature.

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Configure Advanced Filter

Opens the Advanced Filter dialog, which lets you set up and use complex Boolean filter terms.

Enable Advanced Filter

Activates the filter specified with the Advanced Filter dialog.

Filter Selection Set

When chosen, the table shows only the currently selected selection set. Default=off.

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Display non-Dynamics Objects

By default, this option is on in Scene Explorer and off in MassFX Explorer. When on, Scene Explorer lists all objects in the scene. When off, it lists only the following types of objects:

• Objects to which the MassFX Rigid Body modifier is applied.
• MassFX Constraint helpers
• Skeleton helpers

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These choices control the hierarchy display.

Collapse All

Collapses the entire hierarchy.

Collapse Selected

Collapses the hierarchy of selected entries.

Expand All

Expands the hierarchy to display all entries.

Expand Selected

Expands the hierarchy of selected entries.

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Display in Track View

Choose this to open a Track View window. If an object in the selection has an animated track, Track View displays the object in the Controller window; otherwise the window is empty.

Display Dependencies

When chosen, the name of an object and any objects dependent on the selected object, such as instances and references, are shown in bold in the Name column when the Modify panel is active. Default = Not chosen.

The Modify panel must be active; otherwise, choosing Display Dependencies has no effect.