Layers and Object Lister in Alias

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We can organize geometry with layers using either the Layers Bar

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or the Object Lister.

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And they both display the same layers

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and both can be scrolled.

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But the Object Lister can also be resized to

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show more layers and to display long layer names.

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You can select layers and use the right mouse to access the menu,

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and for example, create a folder to group those layers together

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and I can rename that with a double click.

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And here this displays in a typical expanded folder view.

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But up here in the Layers Bar, you need to go into the folder to see the layers

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and then back out again.

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Visibility in the scene is on this square

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in both.

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And you can use the Alt key to isolate just one layer in the scene

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On the menu, you've got these three states

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and those have a shortcut icon up here on the layer.

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So I can make it Reference, so that the geometry can't be selected but can be snapped to,

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or totally Inactive,

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or back to P for Pickable.

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And here is a symmetry display that creates a mirrored instance in the scene.

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And if the mirror direction isn't right,

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then I can use Set Symmetry Plane and then just adjust this manipulator.

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Back on the square,

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if I use the right mouse instead of the left, I can set the layer color,

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and this changes the wireframe color in the scene.

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Now this bright blue is the creation layer,

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and so if I add a new layer, for example, then that one gets set as the creation layer

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so that when I place some geometry,

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that's the layer it gets assigned to.

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Or if I set the tires

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or the wheels,

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then you can see that the geometry gets assigned to the active creation layer.

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But if we forget to set that,

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then we simply select the objects and then assign them afterwards.

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So all the tools also appear on the Layers Bar menu

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or on this shortcut bar below each layer.

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But the reason this is called the Object Lister is because this is

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where we can see the geometry in the scene as object nodes.

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And the right mouse menu is different when I use it on a layer

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to the one I get on the object level.

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So here I can, for example, un-group this

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or I could select these two and group them.

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I can select components within a group hierarchy and delete them maybe

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and generally work with objects the way we would in the scene.