"object.hidden = true" not working!

It works on everything else, but it's REFUSING to work on my animated "lights" model.



Every time I spawn in they are set to HIDDEN but they're still visible anyway. I have to open the editor and select'm then hit HIDDEN again and again to make them actually hidden, then they function as expected.

Any idea what's going on!?
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Oh FFS just noticed my damn textures have gone orange AGAIN! ... AAAAGGGAAAIIINNN
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Seems to be an issue with the fact that they are animated.

Apparently if they're animated you can't just set them to hidden off the bat. Most likely something to do with "play ambient" or something.

Either way, for now no animation =D