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Group objects

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Another tool for creating hierarchies is called groups. Now groups allow you to create an arbitrary hierarchy that collects objects that maybe aren't so logically connected. Now in this scene, we have a couple of objects here that are fairly logical. If we take a look in the outliner. We have something like this stereo console here, and underneath that we have the receiver and the turntable. That's actually a pretty logical way of connecting things. So if you select the main console, we select everything that's inside of that console. But we have some other objects here that maybe aren't so logically connected such as this furniture here. In this particular instance, there's really no one object that we want to have as the main node, or the parent of everything else. So in this case, we can create what's called a group. If I shift+select the table and all of the chairs and the couch, I can go into edit group. Now the hotkey for this is ctrl+g. That's important to remember. Once we do…

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