Outliner
The Outliner 2.0 is a fast and easy to use scene management tool. It has a wide range of features, including selecting, hiding, freezing, linking and grouping objects in the "Hierarchy Mode". In the "Layer Mode" you can organize your scene by dragging&dropping objects from one layer to the other. What's more, the Outliner offers support for nested layers, to manage scenes more efficiently. The interface is nimble enough to keep it open constantly.
Compared to the previous version (1.6.1), there are many improvements. Most notable among them are: hugely increased performance, improved stability, nested layer support and many small tweaks to improve the ease of use. For a list of all changes, click here

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Its out ! Outliner2-SF is out !
Outliner2-SF - the revived 3ds Max Scene Manager is ready !
Please head over to its own dedicated post
https://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/outliner2-sf
Would love a new Outliner!
A new version 2 would be great, I got hooked on Outliner since 2011!
Highly interest! I still use
Highly interested! I still use it to this day, had to modify it so it would let me use it on newer versions.
thats part of the plan :)
thats part of the plan :)
2025 please!
2025 please!
How's the interest in a working Outliner2 version ?
Hi guys !
Please help me understand the level of interest in an updated Outliner 2 version ! That means an Outliner 2 version that works with 3ds Max 2027 etc.
It also would remove the custom nested-layers implementation of the current version and would rely purely on the 3ds Max layer hierarchy functionality.
FYI:
Current version relies on Custom Attributes attached to the scene, which comes with some risks and of course makes scene incompatbile with 3ds Max installs without Outliner installed...
So please give me some feedback about how many still would like to use Outliner over Scene Explorer :)
Thanks !
You also can comment/discuss here:
https://www.frogsinspace.at/?p=8889
See the attached video about the current state of my update/revamp work
Can you please share it?
The one posted below is not working
System.TypeLoadException: Method 'get_ObjectName' in type 'PJanssen.Outliner.Actions.OpenOutliner' from assembly 'Outliner.Core, Version=3.0.25.13101, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' does not have an implementation.
error upon startup in max 2023
System.TypeLoadException: Method 'get_ObjectName' in type 'PJanssen.Outliner.Actions.OpenOutliner' from assembly 'Outliner.Core, Version=3.0.25.13101, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' does not have an implementation.
arch. Hazem Mamdouh
www.hm-studios.com
DOWNLOAD LINK
https://github.com/Pjanssen/Outliner
https://github.com/Pjanssen/Outliner-3.0/tree/master/build/Installers
It's living on
I have a working copy for 2025.
Only thing that does not work is hotkeys...
Stephen Meldal Foged
Max User since 1997
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Copenhagen - Denmark