[Closed] Layer Manager

you might have to supply more detail than that for somebody to think “sure, such-and-such / I can do that”.

The Layer Manager itself is strictly non hierarchical, internally. There’s basically an array of layers, and each layer can have an array of nodes, but that’s all the hierarchy you’re going to get.

So what are you specifically looking for?

I have a model that is broken into multiple layers within the Layer Manager.
What I am looking for is to tree the layers into a master layer and sub-tree layers from there.

-Master Layer

• sub layer 1
• sub layer 2
• sub layer 3

I would to click to collapse the master and find the sub layers.

• Master Layer

I would like to hind the master and specific sub layers too.

Okay… looks like a solution might possibly already exist in The Onion:
http://www.hyperent.com/Hyp-TheOnion.php

Or, if nothing else, this might become a feature of HyperLayer (from the same author; I see Zbuffer is reading this thread as I type this, so he might be able to weigh in on this as well).

It’s certainly possible, but I think you would have to abandon max’s own layer manager entirely, or at least as far as layer organization goes, as it would be too easy to break the hierarchy of layers otherwise (unless you don’t want the ‘master layer’ to affect its slave layers, and instead just want a parent/child(ren) type display without any of the property overrides).

Hi,

Chris Johnson write a great plugin that greatly enhanced the layer manager:

http://www.fangornlm.com

The new way of doing this in max is to use containers.

J.

very kewl, but all of them go up to 9.

I am looking for one for 2009 x64.
any help there.

fangorn, I doubt will be updated since Chris is now working for Autodesk. The Onion should work in more recent versions of Max as it is just maxscripting and not an actual plugin, so it doesn’t need to be recompiled to work.

-Eric

Does anyone know if the onion has been update for max 2009 64?? desperately looking for new alternative layer management in max.

Cheers

The most recent updates to the onion can be found here.

-Eric

I believe ZooKeeper has implemented this too.