Collections¶
There can be many objects in a scene: A typical stage scene consists of furniture, props, lights, and backdrops. Blender helps you keep everything organized by allowing you to group like objects together. Objects can be grouped together without any kind of transformation relationship (unlike parenting). Collections are used to just logically organize your scene, or to facilitate one-step appending or linking between files or across scenes.
Collections Tab¶
Reference
- Menu
Restrictions¶
- Selectable
Toggles the ability to select the objects from the 3D Viewport. This is useful for if you have placed something in the scene and do not want to accidentally select it when working on something else.
- Disable in Renders
Enables/disables visibility of the collection in renders.
- Holdout
Objects inside this collection will generate a holdout/mask in the active view layer.
- Indirect Only
Objects inside this collection will only contribute to the final image indirectly through shadows and reflections.
Instancing¶
- Instance Offset X, Y Z
Applies a spatial offset of the instanced collections from the original object’s origin.
Line Art¶
Todo.
Collections Panel¶
Reference
- Mode
Object Mode
- Panel
All collections that an object has been assigned to are listed in the Properties
.- Add to Collection
Adds the selected object to a collection. A pop-up lets you specify the collection to add to.
- New
+
Creates a new collection and adds the selected object to it.
- Name
To rename a collection, simply click in the collections name field.
- Remove
X
To remove an object from a collection, find the name of the collection from which you wish to remove the object, and click the
X
button to the right of the collection name.- Specials
Unlink Collection, Select Collection, Set Offset from Cursor
- Offset
Applies a spatial offset of the instanced collections from the original object’s origin.
See also
Appending or Linking Collections
To append a collection from another blend-file, consult this page. In summary, Select a blend-file and then the collection.