Selection Window

Working with large assembly structures

The Selection Window is only available within the professional version.

The Selection Window is enabling a fast selection of components in the 3D assembly (game object) hierarchy. You can select components based on the visibility status, assign groups to components and view and hide groups.

Opening the selection window

To open the Selection window please select realvirtual> Selection window (Pro) in the realvirtual.io menu. This will open this window:

Actions with ALL

In the section Actions with ALL you can sop the suppression of all components or show all hidden components.

Selection

It is important to know that there are two levels of selection. The first one is the normal Unity Selection (this means all highlighted objects in the hierarchy). You can save currently selected objects in a temporarily g4a selection by pushing Add selected. All actions that you are performing under Actions with Selection are performed on the Unity AND rvselection.

Button	Description
Add selected	Adds the selected components to the rvselection
To Unity selection	Moves the rvselection to the Unity selection
Remove selected	Removes the selected objects from the rvselection
Remove all	Removes all objects from the rvselection
Select Invisible	Selects all invisible objects
Select Visible	Selects all visible objects
Select Unlocked	Selects all unlocked objects
Select Locked	Selects all locked objects
Select Layer	Selects all objects on the defined layer
Select Material	Selects all objects with the defined material

Actions with selection

These are actions that you can perform with the selected objects. The actions are always performed for all objects in the current Unity and realvirtual.io selection.

Button	Action
Assign Material	Assigns the selected material
Change Shader	Changes the shader of the material
Material Update	With a material update, defined materials in a scene can be replaced with others. Material Update
Suppress children	Suppresses all children components in the hierarchy view
To new Parent	Moves the components to the new (selected) parent
Copy to empty Parent	Makes a copy of the components and moves them to the new (selected) parent
To Layer	Moves the components to the defined layer
Visible	Makes the selected components visible
Invisible	Makes the selected components invisible
Isolate	Isolates the selected components (and makes the rest invisible)
View all	Stops the isolation and displays all components
Lock	Locks the components
Unlocked	Unlocks the components
To Group	Assigns the components to the defined group. If the group is not yet existing it is created.
Remove Groups	Removes all groups from the selected components
Collapse same level	Collapses all components to the same hierarchy level
Expand same levels	Expands all components to the same hierarchy level
Pivot to origin	Moves the pivot of the component to the origin of the defined component
Pivot to center	Moves the pivot of the component to the center of the defined component
Static	Makes the components static
Movable	Makes the components non-static (movable)
Remove G4A scripts	Removes all realvirtual.io Scripts from the selected components
Remove missing scripts	Removes all null-components from the current selection
Bake to single mesh	Combines all selected meshes to one mesh and saves it to a new gameObject. You can define a name for this gameObject in "Name baked mesh:"

Groups

In the Group section, you can find all groups that are defined in the current model.

Button	Action
Plus	Adds the selected components to the Group
Minus	Removes the selected components from the Group
Hide	Hides all components which are currently belonging to the Group
Show	Shows all components currently belonging to the Group

Material Update

The Material update allows you to replace defined materials in a scene with others by one click. To use this feature, you need to define an update by creating an asset called "MaterialUpdate" in the current folder, which can be defined in the Inspector. To create the asset, right-click in the Project area and select "Create/realvirtual/Add material update settings".

material update

You can use the following parameters to specify which materials should be replaced: material, RGB color, and material name or partial name. All of these input parameters are considered in the order listed. You can assign a specific material or a blueprint material, but only one of these options can be defined at a time. Multiple mappings can be defined, and to add another mapping, simply click on the "+" button. The mappings in the list are carried out sequentially, and they can overwrite each other. The material update replaces materials of imported, non-instantiated prefabs with instantiated ones, resulting in improved performance.

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