What does the nView addon do?

Determine objects’ visibility from any camera, or being visible in a “reflection” of another object. Knowing this, you can:

• Select only the visible objects!
• Set multiple visibility attributes of objects or collections at once, including for the viewport, render, and view layer!
• Hide demanding collections or objects that affect performance, without affecting what’s seen by the camera!
• Hide objects dynamically in an animation, to speed up playback and rendering long animations!

After choosing your settings, you can apply the culling with different operators as buttons:

• Select Object nView – Selects all visible objects
• Set Object nView – Sets each object’s visibility attributes (selectable, visible in viewport or render)
• Set Collection nView – Sets the visibility attributes of each collection that has visible objects (view layer, viewport or render visibility)
• Set Mask nView – Sets a mask modifier weighted to a vertex group of viable faces for each viable object.
• Select Mesh nView – selects vertices, edges, or faces in view (mesh edit mode)
• Hide Mesh nView – reveals/hides vertices, edges, or faces in view (mesh edit mode)