SPOREMIND · USER MANUAL

Mycel 1.0.1

Mycel 1.0.1 is a scene naming and visibility addon. It requires Blender 5.0.0 or later and has been tested on Windows with Blender 5.0.1 and 5.2.2 LTS. Other versions and operating systems have not been verified.

Install and open

Open Blender Preferences, use Install from Disk in the extensions interface and select mycel-1.0.1.zip. Enable Mycel if prompted. In a 3D Viewport, press N and open Scene Org. Save your project before a large cleanup.

Rename

Choose Object, Mesh, Material, Modifier, Collection or Bone. Set the scope and an operation, enter its settings and click Rename. Shared meshes, materials and armature bones are processed once. Linked or read-only data is skipped and reported. Blender may add suffixes when names conflict with data outside the batch.

For object-based targets, Selection uses selected objects, Active Collection includes objects in the active collection and its descendants, and All uses the current scene. For Collections, Selection uses the direct collection memberships of selected objects, Active Collection includes the active collection and its descendants, and All uses all collections linked to the current scene. The root Scene Collection is never renamed.

Find / Replace replaces literal text, with optional case matching. Prefix / Suffix adds text before or after existing names. Sequential uses a base name, starting number and padding. Objects use alphabetical name order, rather than selection click order or the displayed Outliner order. Shared data follows its first object reference in that order. Regex uses Python patterns and replacement groups; invalid patterns or replacements are rejected before any name is changed.

Each batch is an Undo-enabled operation. Undo and Redo of naming and Undo of collection isolation were checked in the native Blender UI context using private projects.

Viewport tools

Check the active collection displayed in Viewport. Isolate Active shows it, its ancestor path and its descendants while hiding other branches. Existing collection exclusion and object hiding are preserved; those flags can still prevent an object from appearing. Show All clears layer-collection viewport hiding, not an arbitrary earlier layout or every exclusion/hiding flag. Use Undo or a saved Scene State to return to a known layout.

Apply Colour sets the active collection's Outliner colour tag. All, Meshes, Lights, Cameras, Rigs and No Helpers are scene visibility presets; review their effect before saving your project.

Scene States

Set the visibility, enter a name and click the save control. An existing name updates that state. Load saves a return point and restores the chosen state. Return restores the visibility immediately before Load. The delete control removes a state entry. Save your project to keep the states; save and reopen was verified.

States capture object viewport/render/local hiding and layer-collection hiding/exclusion in the active view layer. They do not save geometry, camera views or collection render-hiding flags. Entries use data names, so update states after renaming or deleting objects/collections.

Inspect

Scan Scene finds object naming groups after removing a trailing numeric suffix such as .001. It does not compare geometry or scan mesh/material names. Select a group to prepare Object, Selection and Sequential naming. Review the settings and click Rename; Select itself does not repair names. Re-scan groups saved by version 1.0, especially if names contain commas.

Support

Contact Sporemind through the Mycel page on Superhive. Include Blender and Mycel versions, operating system, target/scope and reproduction steps. The purchase panel includes 12 months of support and updates; consult it for current renewal terms. Names and visibility are edited in your current project; Mycel does not edit modeling geometry.