Create new Metaball family I'm trying to rename my metaball. If I hit f2 and rename it, the body part disappears in the viewport. If I switch to rendered mode I can see it, but not select it.
Is this a bug? How do I get around it?
Also, if I rename the metaball back to Mball, The body reappears, but in the form of the entire Mball family. Then when I move it, the Mball family disappears. Sort of frustrating.
The docs mention confusing behavior, but I'm in the same scene.
Note:
I only want to create a new family because I couldn't hide parts of it.
I'm writing a python script to render it multiple times, and each time I want the metaball to grow more blobs.
So if there's an easy (ish) way to 'hide' parts of the metaball from a script, I'd sidestep the issue.
I'm using Blender 2.83
So after a while I figured out why it wasn't working: the name of the new family ended with a number. For instance, MballTwo works while Mball2 doesn't.