I forgot to mention that action to set visible selected layers is only
available for layers inside inline canvases. Exported canvases doesn't
support the action. User can change the parameters in that case and it
would work as expected, though.
Also, forgot to add link to branch:
https://github.com/genete/synfig/tree/group-switch
Cheers!
El viernes, 27 de septiembre de 2013, Carlos López González escribió:
> Hi!
> As you probably know, I've been working on a new feature that would allow
> to make certain layers inside a Group layer visible each time.
> The Group layer has four new parameters:
> Z_Depth_range_enabled (bool)
> Z_Depth_range_position (float)
> Z_Depth_range_depth (float)
> Z_Depth_range_transition (float)
>
> Please feel free to suggest new names and or descriptions. I am open to
> anything in this matter.
>
> The 'enabled' parameter just enables or disable the feature. It is non
> animatable by default.
> The 'position' and the 'position'+'depth' parameters mark the start and
> end (inclusive) range of z depth value of the layers where they are full
> visible.
> The 'transition' parameter is a value that expands the previous range.
> Layers with a z depth in the transition area are partially visible.
>
> User can change manually those values on the Group layer and the layers
> are rendered accordingly.
>
> Also, user can right click a layer selection (all them from the same Group
> layer but maybe they are not continuos) and the layer become full visible.
> That action doesn't modify the transition parameter.
>
> Children layers that are visible (when enabled parameter is 'on') are
> displayed in the layer stack with bold letter.
>
> Known issues:
> Software render method complains continuously about paste canvas bounding
> box:
> warning: layer_pastecanvas.cpp:509 bounding box shrank while rendering?
>
> I've not found a way to update the bold letters immediately that the user
> changed one parameter manually. It works for the contextual action over the
> layers
>
> The instant update of the bold letter seems to not work on Windows.
>
>
> Well, I think the feature is fully usable regardless those known issues,
> so I propose to merge into stable.
>
> I would like to know if it will be merged into 0.64.1 or into master
> (0.64.2) before send the pull request.
>
> Cheers!
> --
> Carlos
> http://synfig.org
>
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Carlos
http://synfig.org
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