Help with layers, stacking order, and master slides
Aug 08, 2012
I was doing this tutorial: https://player.vimeo.com/video/145579482
And noticed that items placed on the base layer of the master slide appear below all content placed on the slides' base layers in the scenes (as it should).
I was a little surprised that layers placed in the master slide appear above the regular slides' content. At first I was wondering how SL "knew" to put some content below and some above, but after noticing the layers I figured it out.
But in the arms race here, I was wondering what happens if I then put additional layers on the slides. And those things appear above the master slides' layers. So here are my questions:
Is there a way to make something on a master slide which will be on top of all possible layers that come after it?
The default property for a layer seems to be that it should turn off all other layers. Is there a way to have that not be the default?
Or is there a way to make a layer that says, "Never turn me off."
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A layer will always load above another layer, whether it is a master slide layer or a slide layer. You can load a layer above another layer easily by adding a timeline start trigger to load a layer so it will always look like that layer is on the top.
At the moment you cannot change the default behavior of layers, nice feauture request though. also you cannot set a layer to not turned off (again a nice idea)
So the stacking is (from bottom to top):
Content slide additional layers
Layout additional layers
Master slide additional layers
Content slide base layer
Layout base layer
Master slide base layer
So if there is something that I want to be sure is above everything else on every slide I need to put it on a layer on every content slide.
It doesn't have anything to do with the order they are created, right?
Yep the order created has no effect, it is based on the order they are triggered the last triggered layer will sit on the top
That is awful.
I would expect them to show up in the order they are stacked in the Slide layers panel.
I like it that way, I know if i call a layer it will always be on the top. This way I can control stacking if reqiured
I agree that there are many times when this behavior is useful and expected.
In this case I came about it from that tutorial at the top. I was trying to rework it a little so that the hotspot at the bottom of the screen would always have a little bit of a visible hit area—without anything ever going over the top of that visible hit area.
There still may be some way to do that, but I'm not seeing it..
Sorry I never looked at the screenr, this is simple to sort, just copy the hotspot onto each layer (the trigger will copy as well) and ensure your dock/menu is set to not close other layers.
This way the hotspot will always e there.
A little more work but easily fixed
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