The World Browser lets you perform numerous operations and change the hierarchy of the scene. By right clicking one or more selected objects in the browser, a pop-up menu appears showing a number of commands and visualization options. Let's examine some of these operations which can also be accomplished by clicking the appropriate button. Just as it happens in the interactive views, icons used to represent state of an object turn red once selected.
Picking disabled
Makes an object non-pickable. Convenient when you do not want to accidentally modify the object.
Bounding Box only
Very useful when you have to deal with complex models.
Hidden in interactive views
Disables visualization of selected objects from 3D views and makes them invisible. Objects are visualized only when selected, and hidden when deselected.
Hidden in rendering
Disables rendering of selected objects.
Do not receive shadows
Choose this option if you do not want the selected object to receive shadows.
Do not cast shadows
Choose this option if you do not want the selected object to cast shadows.
Group
Groups all selected objects. If you add an object to the scene while a group is selected, the new object will automatically be added to the group. If you choose this command while no objects are selected, an empty group will be created. To add objects to the newly created group, just drag and drop them into the folder.
Ungroup
Ungroups objects belonging to the selected group.
Delete
Deletes selected objects or groups. The same operation can be performed by using the Win / Mac shortcut while the objects you want to delete are selected.
Status filters on the top right of the browser window allows you to decide which kind of information you want displayed in the hierarchy browser.
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