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mrbeaver.07:

--- Quote from: bayinghound on September 03, 2021, 08:37:26 am ---Layering is great when you're painting weights on bones.

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Oh, why I never thought about that?! I was rigging models by placing separate objects and write down the location.

Steve:
Layers are desigend to help you make and edit things. You can hide things in on layer to help you see another layer, and you can lock a layer to keep you from accidentally slecting or editing things in it.

For example, in a Scene if you put the interior of a house in one layer, the roof+ceiling in another, the furniture in a third, and your characters in a fourth, you can lock the house and furniture when you are working with the characters so it won't accidentally be moved, hide the roof+ceiling so you can see the whole scene from the top without them blocking your view, etc.

In the Object editor you can put different parts in different layers and lock/unlock, hide/show them with a single click to help see what you're modeling.

Old Codger:
Thank you, Steven and everyone else. I think I explained part of my interest. I'll have to do some experimenting to see how well such a tool as layering fits my own "hand" as it were. I never for an instant thought you had gone to the trouble of coding that functionality for the heck of it. I was simply hoping that layering might solve a problem I have with providing models for someone else. I'm going to try sending him layered models. I'm also going to try using layers to allow me to model interior spaces, something I've really never done before. Always a learning curve.

Thanks all and especially think you to Steven for giving us this marvelous toy to play with.

Old Codger:
Well I made up an object consisting of multiple meshes which I assigned to different layers. It should be quite useful when building interior sets. UNFORTUNATELY! It appears that when I do an export to an .obj file (so as to produce a materials file) that when I import the result into a new .an8 workpiece the layer information gets lost in the process. Therefor what I was hoping to be able to accomplish using the layers (to enable the person to whom I send the model to selectively view the individual elements) is not possible. That or I'm doing something wrong in the export - import process. Anyhow, I did find the layers toggle above so being able to turn layers on and off will help while adding structures to the inside of the sets I build. Anyhow I do appreciate the help. Layering will aid me doing some things even if it will not allow me to do what I wanted to do with it. Win some; lose some and some get called on account of a worldwide pandemic.  If I were a filmmaker I might be tempted to make a video titled "Love In The Time Of Global Pandemic". ;)

Steve:
The .obj format does not support layers. You need to either export to the .an8 format or just save the whole project.

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