[Bf-committers] [Feature Request] Separate Cycles Rendered 3dView (Layer) Configuration

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:12 PM, imagenesis at gmail.com
<imagenesis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Solution:
> I would at least like to be able to hide emitters yet still have their
> output be rendered in the Rendered view. One way this can be accomplished
> is to be able to select a different set of layers for the 3d Rendered View,
> or have the ability to set a set of layers for each 3d View which would be
> useful in and of itself.
>
> In general:
> I think it makes sense to be able to configure the Rendered Cycles 3d View
> separately and quite possibly with additional configuration parameters from
> the standard 3d Views used for editing as this view and its intended
> functionality is quite different from a standard 3d View.

There's a button next to the layers in the 3D view header that makes
it possible to select different layers per 3D view, which seems to be
what you describe? There's also an option to use the settings from the
active render layer, this allows you to show extra layers rather than
hide them.