Animatable Layer Ordering...

CrAzY Dan · Post by **CrAzY Dan** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:46 pm

I think it would be a good idea to have animatable layer ordering. What i mean by this is: say you have someone jumping over a fence, you can have him running towards the fence and jumping and landing on the other side of the fence by editing the layer order in the middle.
I have needed to do this a few times and it has been complicated to do it so i added a feature request.

Dan

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:24 pm

I think that if layer Z depth position works fine (without group limitation) that would be unnecesary... I think that LM must work more in the actual Z depth limitations than add a feature like this... ( I think)

CrAzY Dan · Post by **CrAzY Dan** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:45 pm

I didn't know about Z layer ordering. I will try this.

How does it work?

MarkBorok · Post by **MarkBorok** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:19 pm

In the project settings dialog, select "sort layes by depth" and "sort layers by true distance". This way your layers will appear to be physically in 3D space. In order to move a layer behind or in front of another layer, use the layer translate tool with the "alt" key to move it slightly in Z space.

Ordinarily Moho draws layers in the order in which they appear in the layers window, so if you don't have "sort by true distance" selected then a layer that is farther away from the camera can still appear to be on top of a layer that is closer to the camera.

CrAzY Dan · Post by **CrAzY Dan** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:21 pm

Thank You for telling me about that.

Dan