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thecolclough:
definitely keep the layer settings local. i'm sure people will end up wanting to use their layers in different ways for different parts of a project.
on a related note, i was doing a bit more work in Build 1103 lately; hid Layer 3 so i could see what i was doing while editing a mesh on Layer 0; several minutes later i reset 3 to visible, and found i'd accidentally made a horrible mess of another mesh there which i hadn't been able to see. fortunately i had a backup! i know the layer lock switch is meant to protect against that sort of thing, but would it be possible to automatically disable mesh-editing operations on unlocked-but-hidden layers too, just in case?
Steve:
MvGulik: with separate settings per object you can have different layers hidden or locked in each Object, Scene, etc. With global settings layer 1, for example, would be shown or hidden everywhere.
thecolclough: #098-021 - Components assigned to hidden or locked Layers can be altered by editing commands.
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thecolclough:
just to clarify, i didn't have Layer 3 locked in my project. just hidden. not sure how clear i made that previously, and didn't want to make you think there were more bugs than there really are :P
Steve:
I don't think that you should be able to alter anything on a layer that's either Locked or Hidden. Currently there are a lot of little places where this can happen. I plan on fixing all of them in the next drop. I've just been lazy and not done the work to do this in the past :)
thecolclough:
i suspect you must be getting tired of me picking holes in your Layers code, but i'm afraid i just found another bug - grouped meshes seem to be affected by multiple different layer visibility settings. i've attached the project; the small meshes inside the round structure at the top of the first object are affected by the visibility settings for both layers 0 and 3. i'd guess this is because the group is set to Layer 3, but the meshes within the group are set to Layer 0?
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