Lines between layers

[Anonymous]

I'm sure I have seen in a video somewhere where the tutor had placed lines between layers in the layer palette to separate groups of layers.
Can somebody remind me how to do this, or did I imagine it?

[Barry Kelly]

The layers (and layer combinations) are listed alphabetically/numerically.
So you just need to create layers (or layer combinations) called "A_________", "B__________" or similar.

If you use prefixes with you layer names then you could create layers called "PREFIX_________"

Barry.

[Eduardo Rolon]

screenshot

[Anonymous]

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Another way to group layers (without lines, sorry) is to assign different group number to them (third column) but remember that objects in different groups don't apply material intersection.

[JaredBanks]

Eduardo. cool solution. never thought of that!

[Eduardo Rolon]

That is based on Rod Jurich's idea which I had to update to 18.

[__archiben]

i used to lock-out the 'header' layer as well: it helped visually break up the list and meant that a stray mouse click couldn't direct elements to that accidentally....

[Anonymous]

Ben, how did you grey out the text?

[Barry Kelly]

Rogerdodge wrote:
Ben, how did you grey out the text?

Just by Locking the layer - but you won't see it greyed out in the layer settings dialogue.
Only in the Info Box or tool settings.

Also not much use if you use the option to hide locked layers as you won't see them at all.

It is a good idea to lock them in all you layer combinations as generally these are layers you will never want to place elements into.

Barry.