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Outlining object names with Scene Explorer

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Outlining object names with Scene Explorer

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- [Instructor] Once you've got a few objects in your scene, you'll want to use this scene explorer outline view to manage and select objects. I previously hid the scene explorer. I'll bring it back from its button on the main toolbar, toggle scene explorer. And it appears on the left side of the screen. The scene explorer is a list of every object in your scene, and it's hierarchical. We can see that some of these objects are groups. I can tell it's a different type of object because it's got a different icon, and I intentionally use the word "group" in the object name. That's a good convention to follow. To expand that group, click on the right facing arrow, the triangle. And that will expand the hierarchy to reveal the contents of that group. Those objects are all subordinate to the group or lower in the scene hierarchy. If I click a name in the scene explorer, such as chair group 001, then that corresponding…

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