Manual Layering/Grouping
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:42 am
As an avid user of other visual editing software like Photoshop, the use of layers comes almost like second nature to me. In many of my edits in such programs (amateur graphic art and personal photo altering projects) I group layers together by ease of use and quick visibility. For this, I do acknowledge the auto-grouping feature of the layer tab.
Unless I just missed it (a very possible circumstance as I sometimes miss the obvious), I cant seem to find a disable function to the auto-grouping. For my purposes as a hopeful novelist, I use this software to make mock-up maps for personal reference while world-building/writing. For this, I often need to place roads through mountain ranges, have features like castles and walls layered onto the others features (as if built into the mountains), and the like.
Unfortunately, while the automatic grouping is on, I cannot move roads, which have their own layer group, to between the mountains. They always seem to be created behind the features, or towards the back (top) of the layer rack. The simple fix would be to switch the layer order and move the roads in front of the features, yet every time I try this, the system crashes. Even it it were to work, the road would simply render on top of the mountain range and not between the two mountains as I wish. I think this might be fixed if layers didn't auto group as vigorously. Features could be placed or regrouped according to placement on the canvas and/or required visibility, not by type of feature (features, text, water/landmasses, etc.)
If there are other fixes I am missing, tell me. If not, I would urge you to consider how a manual layering/grouping feature might be possible.
Unless it is just not possible because of the program and its engine. If so, the this may be disregarded. I wouldn't want anything to break. I do enjoy this software and the relative ease of use it provides. It is intuitive, however I feel a few more things might be more so if organization (layer orders, groups) could be personalized.
Unless I just missed it (a very possible circumstance as I sometimes miss the obvious), I cant seem to find a disable function to the auto-grouping. For my purposes as a hopeful novelist, I use this software to make mock-up maps for personal reference while world-building/writing. For this, I often need to place roads through mountain ranges, have features like castles and walls layered onto the others features (as if built into the mountains), and the like.
Unfortunately, while the automatic grouping is on, I cannot move roads, which have their own layer group, to between the mountains. They always seem to be created behind the features, or towards the back (top) of the layer rack. The simple fix would be to switch the layer order and move the roads in front of the features, yet every time I try this, the system crashes. Even it it were to work, the road would simply render on top of the mountain range and not between the two mountains as I wish. I think this might be fixed if layers didn't auto group as vigorously. Features could be placed or regrouped according to placement on the canvas and/or required visibility, not by type of feature (features, text, water/landmasses, etc.)
If there are other fixes I am missing, tell me. If not, I would urge you to consider how a manual layering/grouping feature might be possible.
Unless it is just not possible because of the program and its engine. If so, the this may be disregarded. I wouldn't want anything to break. I do enjoy this software and the relative ease of use it provides. It is intuitive, however I feel a few more things might be more so if organization (layer orders, groups) could be personalized.