Once again I am hoping someone can tell me what I am doing wrong. I have a scene with lots of objects that are set up with parent/child relationships so that I can easily move them, (if I move the desk, everything on top of it goes with it.) For some reason, some of the parents will expand/collapse while others won't. As seen in the above image, the ones that won't collapse have a larger triangle than the ones that will. This is very frustrating as it makes for a sequencer list that is several feet long. I should also note that this was an import from Infini-D 4 to start with. I have made so many changes that I wouldn't want to start over with a re-import if that's what is required to fix this. Any and all suggestions welcomed, I am sure it is someting I am missing! Thanks, Vern PS. Great group, it is wonderful to have somewhere to go for assistance. Thanks to all!

I don't have an answer, but have found that RDS also from time to time does similar things; it seems to be a bug in the program, maybe the basic archetecture both RDS and Carrara share. My solution has been to save, quit and restart the program. Since the same objects don't behave the same way every time, I'm lead to believe it's a program or system bug. Hope it helps.

Actually it's not a bug. There are two issues here: Links and Groups. 1. Links. The large triangle that is circled as not expanding is a link. (The triangle connotes the parent.) It's not supposed to be expandable but just a visual cue. 2. Groups. The expandable triangle allows you expand grouped objects for individual selection. Links are formed by (in the Heirarchy window) dragging directly to another object (The dragged object becomes the child of the 'Triangled' Parent.) or selecting two objects and selecting 'Make Parent' from the pull down . Groups are formed by either selecting mutliple objects in the Heirarchy window or the Assembly window and the selecting the Make Group in the pull down menue or Command/Alt G depending on the platform that you are working on. BTW, if you already formed a group you drag additions to the group by pulling them under on of the items in the group. However, if you drag it onto another item it will become a Child of that object. The Carrara manual has a pretty good section with screen captures showing how the two are used on pgs. 354-362. In the RDS manual it's on pgs 319 and following. RDS actually has two schemes for presentation. One looks just like the Carrara version and the other is the icon presentation which is talked about in the manual. Mark Mark

Thank you Mark! I had looked in the Carrara Bible, but not the Referance Guide (my bad!) I read the pages in the book, then experimented with it and was able to unlink and group the objects that didn't have to be linked so that now my sequencer collapses down to a managable list. I don't know how you find to time to help, but I am sure glad that you do! If I ever get to the point where I know 1/10th of what you do, I will be happy. Vern

Hmmm.... Thanks for pointing that out, Mark. Now I know! Sometimes it's hard to tell if something is a feature or a bug....