Is there still no way to collapse the hierarchy without clicking each and every figure? PP2014... My clicking finger is starting to get sore.

How many figures are you trying to collapse?

34 in this file, 12 of which don't nessisarily need to morph in the current animation, and I could convert those 12 to props. When I get the finished animation together, the figure count is usually somewhere north of 50.

WOW! ... Thasa lot!

You might try "parenting" a group of figures to a prop (or another figure) and then you can collapse a whole group with a single click, n'est pas?

Just a thought.

cheers,
dr geep
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I have to be carefull what gets nested, because not everything is the same scale, and that can trough thins off.

Most of the figures are conforming clothes, so while they are technically parented to another figure, conformers show up as though not parrented in hierarchy. I could parrent everything scaled alike to a 'global' figure... I still have to collaps everything inside that figure if I wish to work on something parrented to it.

You are using PP2014, create a group and put a person and their clothes in that group as an example. Group does not effect scale etc. I do this all the time and actually when I have a crowded scene with more then 4 vickies and as many as 8, I group each one and and there clothes, hair shoes and jewelry and then when I get each one set and posed exactly how I want it I sometimes move that group into a master group call done so I don't get confused when selecting items and body parts using the hierarchy to make my selections. I then do the same for walls and furniture etc that are part of the scene. Just name the groups so they make sense to you should be all set. :)

That sounds like a great idea... I will look into how to group items. Thanks ( I was wondering about that new 'Groups' button on the top of the hierarchy editor, but didn't have enough bandwidth to download the support files till this weekend, so couldn't look at the new manual.)

Grouping helps considerably. I had high hopes that the viewport and paramiter dials would respond better when the group visibility was turned off also, but- it doesn't help that much for the responce.