Mike

Awesome! Love the new feature. Hopefully the bones will get it too - that'll really make complex rigs easier, like Mancandy.

Jedrzej_s

Layer naming capability is very cool :). But I don't see it at Blender SVN: http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-cvs/

Will it be in BF Blender 2.50 ???

venomgfx

Please, if it's not BF, then use the "Experimental" tag for this kind of builds.

Thanks, downloading! =)

RNS

Can this built be intergraded with the new particle systems?

Fracus

GREAT!! this is the way.. :-)

Jedrzej_s

digikiller

Jedrzej_s

digikiller: Maybe will U do a patch for NAMED LAYERS ?:

http://www.blender.org/development/submit-a-patch/

Regards :)

Digikiller

The patch has been uploaded to the patch tracker since early
Monday morning.

Meneer de Peer

I can't find any new patch for layers, could you provide a link to the page in the tracker? :)

Digikiller

Go to page 4 in the patch tracker.

Digital FX Artist

This sounds like a very cool tool. I come from a Maya and Lightwave background, so naming layers is a common thing to do. One thought I had is getting rid of the current layer system altogether. I will explain the way I thought about doing it...

From what I understand, layer systems are a way of organizing you scene. Since you are just organizing, I thought of a different, or maybe not so different, way of doing this. Create a layer data block in the OOPs Schematic, this is similar to the object data block. By doing this you can create and name as many layers as you want in your scene. Next, you would add objects to that layer. When you do this, you are connecting the layer data block to the object data block. Now the layer data block can "influence" the object(s) visibility, whether it's clickable, renderable and any other attributes that an object has; essentially everything the current outliner gives you. In other words, you can turn an objects, or in the case of layers multiple objects, attributes off or on using that layers restriction column in the outliner. Layer data blocks would not take absolutely control over the objects restrictions, you would still be able to turn each object on or off individually. But, if you wanted to turn all of the objects connected to that layer on or off at once you could do that with the layer restrictions. You could also "toggle" the objects connected to that layer. For example, if you had 3 objects connected to a layer with 1 off and 2 on, you could hit the toggle switch on the layer and it would turn on the 1 and turn off the other 2. I'm kind of getting into features other than the most important but it's still an interesting feature. One more thing I just thought of, you could even connect a layer data block to another layer data block, giving you a layer hierarchy.

Just simply some thoughts.

- DFXA

Digital FX Artist

This sounds like a very cool tool. I come from a Maya and Lightwave background, so naming layers is a common thing to do. One thought I had is getting rid of the current layer system altogether. I will explain the way I thought about doing it...

From what I understand, layer systems are a way of organizing you scene. Since you are just organizing, I thought of a different, or maybe not so different, way of doing this. Create a layer data block in the OOPs Schematic, this is similar to the object data block. By doing this you can create and name as many layers as you want in your scene. Next, you would add objects to that layer. When you do this, you are connecting the layer data block to the object data block. Now the layer data block can "influence" the object(s) visibility, whether it's clickable, renderable and any other attributes that an object has; essentially everything the current outliner gives you. In other words, you can turn an objects, or in the case of layers multiple objects, attributes off or on using that layers restriction column in the outliner. Layer data blocks would not take absolutely control over the objects restrictions, you would still be able to turn each object on or off individually. But, if you wanted to turn all of the objects connected to that layer on or off at once you could do that with the layer restrictions. You could also "toggle" the objects connected to that layer. For example, if you had 3 objects connected to a layer with 1 off and 2 on, you could hit the toggle switch on the layer and it would turn on the 1 and turn off the other 2. I'm kind of getting into features other than the most important but it's still an interesting feature. One more thing I just thought of, you could even connect a layer data block to another layer data block, giving you a layer hierarchy.

Just simply some thoughts.

- DFXA