Is there any way to create some kind of selection groups for nodes, especially geometry nodes ?

This because there doesn't seem to be a way to isolate objects from the renderview. Which is something I really miss coming from Softimage.

So when working with many objects, it would help a lot if I don't have to actually select and hide all the objects I want to be invisible in the render, just to reselect and unhide them again.

Thanks,

R.

since the question is about hiding in the viewport I assume you are talking about object nodes at object level (so by geometry nodes you mean geometry objects, not actual SOPs)

you can use Bundles for that (Windows/Bundle List)
and then you can refer to bundles using @ in any Operator Path parameter

so for the viewport you can do Display Options/Optimize and in Visible Objects put the @bundlename


there is also concept of node groups for Network Editor by pressing Shift+Z that allows you to create selection groups for the actual nodes in any context and then recall that selection later so it can also be useful for general workflows

Hey toonafish,

there is also the viewport isolator (but it's for viewport only).
For quick hiding and unhiding of many objects I use the visibility manager which is a python panel that comes with the JDB toolkit by
Jonathan de Blok. JDB scripts. [bitbucket.org]JDB toolkit Give it a try!


Cheers
CYTE

Hey, thanks guys.

Great, groups look useful, just like JDB's visibility manager. Didn't know about those, thanks.

Would be great if sometime all these separate views would get an overhaul. There's a separate view to quickly navigate the scene for everything in Houdini, and they all have their limitations.

There's the nodeview, the tree view, the list view mode of the node view, the groups view etc etc. And most of the time I need to have at least 3 open to quickly navigate the scene.

It would be so much easier to combine everything into a single node/list view and be able to see and multi select materials, groups hierarchies etc.