On Nov 9, 2007 5:14 PM, Matt Ebb <<a href="mailto:matt@mke3.net">matt@mke3.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div></div><div>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.
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>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.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div></div><div>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).
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>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.
<br><br>phong.<br></div></div><br>