[Bf-funboard] Named Layers Blender wiki page

[Sangwoo Hong]

On Nov 9, 2007 5:14 PM, Matt Ebb <matt at mke3.net> wrote:

> A little while ago I was thinking about layer systems etc, and thought
> maybe instead of layers you could call it 'tags'. The idea of tags is pretty
> common these days, especially on the web on sites like flickr where you can
> add tags to photos as a way of categorising and describing them.
>

I agree.  "Tags" describe what the current setup does better then "sets".
Certainly better then "layers".  And they are by nature not mutually
exclusive so there is no ambiguity in language.


> It's conceivable that we could easily use the 'Groups' display in the
> outliner to work as a layer system, by adding the view/select/render icons
> there (individual objects in multiple groups would just show the ORed result
> of all groups its in or something like that).
>

It would really be great  the outliner had "Display by tags" mode like in
GMail does.  Add some logical operations like and\or\intersect on top of
that and it would be a wonderfully flexible system of organizing arbitrary
objects.

phong.
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