Hi WN,

re:
> Can it be written in the program manual?

I've added a note to myself to try and add it in the next time I'm updating the help file.

Thanks, - Michael

Sorry what do you name a "layer" ? (for be sure)
a Style ?

Greetings All,

Thanks so much for the quick response.

Yes, this worked!

And... Yes, Styles in Moi are Layers to the rest of us.

In what what are Styles = Layers?

How do you rearrange the order of Styles to control their position in the "stack" of Styles.

Opaque objects in a PS Layer hide objects on the Layers below.

How does that apply to Styles?

Frederick

Hi Frederick,

PS is a 2d application. That's a function of "order"

In the 3d application, Objects are actually hidden behind objects that way. There is no "stack order"

But you can just use the styles to show and hide your objects at whatever layer you want. ctrl clicking to "Top Layer" something. Adding others back in and out as needed..

If you care about the order of the style, it can be moved up and down in the edit styles dialoge...

Hi Frederick, MoI doesn't have Layers exactly, but Styles are meant to be fairly similar to them. AutoCAD style layers that is, not Photoshop style which are a little different.

But the main reason why they are not called "Layers" in MoI is that usually an AutoCAD style layer has its own on/off property.

In MoI the "Style" does not have its own on/off property but it can be used in the Scene browser to turn on or off the set of objects assigned to it. It's the individual objects that have the on/off property. This allows for multiple kinds of set manipulations to be used together in combination, like you can hide all curves in the "Types" section of the Scene Browser independent of what "Layer" they are on. It's way more flexible than layers are.

I wanted to be careful not to get backed in to the limitations of traditional layers where it becomes difficult to show a particular object without having to turn on its layer and having other objects also affected.


re:
>
> How do you rearrange the order of Styles to control their position in the "stack" of Styles.

You can do this in the Edit styles dialog, there are "Up" and "Down" buttons there which will move a selected style either up or down in the list:



- Michael

Thanks much.

Always like to learn.

Frederick