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Hide and seek

Hide and Seek is a powerful workflow and scene management plugin for Cinema 4D that helps you quickly create, manage, and reuse complex object and tag selections. Designed for large and detailed scenes, Hide and Seek keeps you organized and efficient when working with hundreds or thousands of objects in Cinema 4D.

By allowing you to search, filter, hide, reveal, and cycle through selections instantly, Hide and Seek removes the frustration of manual scene navigation and helps you stay focused on creative work.

Hide and Seek Core Features

  • Create complex object/tag selections easily based on an object’s type or name
  • Modify selections globally or step through them one by one
  • Search scene-wide or within specific hierarchies
  • Quickly hide, reveal, or solo your selections
  • Save selections and return to them anytime

Works with third-party plugins/renderers such as:

• Corona

• Redshift

• Octane

• Vray

• Xparticles

Currently only available in English

Hide and Seek Plugin User Interface within Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D Hide and Seek Plugin Object Search Example

Create Complex Selections in Seconds

Hide and Seek makes building advanced selections fast and intuitive. You can create selections based on object type, object name, or hierarchy position, making it easy to isolate exactly what you need in even the most complex scenes.

For example, you can instantly select all splines, only helix splines, or only editable splines, all with simple text-based searches.

Full Tag Search Support

Hide and Seek also works with tags. By including the word “Tag” in your search, you can locate and select specific tags across your entire scene.

This makes it easy to find missing texture tags, compositing tags, render tags, or any other tag type, and quickly modify or delete them as needed.

Cinema 4D Hide and seek plugin Tag Search Example
Cinema 4D Hide and Seek Plugin Cycle objects example

Cycle Through Selections for Fine Control

Once a selection is created, Hide and Seek lets you cycle through objects one at a time using built-in navigation controls. You can adjust parameters globally in the Attribute Manager or fine-tune individual objects without losing your selection.

Save and Reuse Selections

Hide and Seek allows you to save selections so you can return to them at any time. Saved selections can be recalled instantly, helping you maintain consistency throughout your project.

Selections can also be stored using Cinema 4D’s native Selection Objects, giving you multiple ways to manage and reuse your work.

Cinema 4D Hide and Seek Plugin Tagging Example

LESS TIME SEARCHING = MORE TIME CREATING!

Change Log

01-11-26

  • Support for Cinema 4D 2026

09-30-23

  • Support for C4D 2024+

09-27-20

• Support for R23

11-11-19

• Added search support for third-party renderers (Corona, Redshift, Octane, Vray)

• Fixed saving/loading for R21 (Shift + Load adds to current selection instead of replacing)

11-08-19

• Updated search for C4D R21 objects (Field Force, Volume Tag, etc.)