All right let's take a look at layers and scenes and how they can be used to help with our production
and our work flow and to help to really separate out our scene to make it easier to work in.
So let's take a look at layer's first.
You've probably seen at this bottom corner here on this Hetter or this bottom navigation window that
we actually have 20 little squares here and these are the different layers.
You can see right now we're on Layer 1 which is dictated by this little orange dot here.
Now we could select and click on any of these layers to go to that respective layer or by hitting one
two three four five etc. on the keyboard to go to either one of those layers.
So layers are very useful in that we can separate out parts of our scene so that we can work on certain
parts of it at a much quicker rate and not be distracted by some things etc..
Let's take a look at a practical example for example on our first layer Let's go ahead and let's go
ahead and hit shift Hey And let's add a lamp and let's just add a Hemi lamp hit G and Z and let's just
say go from top view.
I'm just going to hit shiftier and duplicate this a bunch of times.
And obviously we wouldn't have it lit like this in our actual scene but this is just an example.
All right.
So let's say that this is your scene and you're wanting to work on your cube.
But let's say you have all these lights and you keep clicking on them.
It's getting annoying because you're trying to click on your cube but you're clicking on your lamps
instead.
Well right now it's a little annoying and we can't really separate them out.
So a way to separate them out is actually if we select all of them by hitting be left click and dragging
selecting all the lamps to move something to another layer we just hit the M key and then select the
layer we want to move it to.
So let's move it to layer 3.
Now if we hit three on the keyboard or click right here we can go to layer 3 and we can see that our
lamps are right there and on Layer 1 is our cube.
So now we can work on our cube and not be distracted by the lamps.
However if we want the lamps in our scene all we have to do is go to the first layer.
And if you shift left click on another layer it will display it as well.
So you can have many different layers displayed so that those things are rendered in your scene or not
rendered in your scene.
For example if you just have the first layer selected and where to render this there would be no light
if you shift left click on your third layer.
There would be the lights in there and this just allows for you to separate things out so that you can
work on different parts of your scene.
We go to the second layer and head shift day and let's add in a mesh.
Taurus we can bring this out here and let's say we want to work on this and then we want to combine
it with our first layer.
We could just shift left shift left click on the first layer and then we would have that as well.
So layers are really cool.
They are very useful to help separate out your scene again to move something to a different layer.
You just select it and hit the end key and then select which layer you want to move it to and to select
multiple layers.
Shift left click on the layers.
Let's take a look at the scene quickly and the scenes is also a good way to separate out your work flow.
Although in a different way.
Whereas layers it's still within the same file or it's within the same scene.
Right here we have all these options here.
The scene tab is actually not used as often as the layers layers or you will be using them a lot.
But I do want to show you how you can add a new scene.
So going up here you could see we have our list of scenes.
We only have this one that we're in right now.
We can hit the plus sign to add in a new scene and we could add in a completely blank new scene we could
link some of the objects to that scene.
Or we could do a full copy of the scene meaning everything will be copied to our new scene including
the objects and the settings and everything.
Now a new scene is what we're going to look at and do.
But I want to show you something for example if I change the settings here you can see that I've changed
them.
If I go over here and click the plus sign and click on new scene you can see that all the settings have
been reset to the default settings and we have a completely brand new scene right here.
And this is still the same Blendr file as the one before and you could see that we have our old scene
over here.
So this is a way of having different scenes within your file.
Again the scenes you would not use them as much unless you do in bigger production files and bigger
productions and you might in the future.
But I want to show you that option as well for kind of separating out your workflow.
But for the most part you're going to be using layers a lot so get used to them and get ready to have
some fun with layers sometimes you fill up all 20 of these boxes with things all over the place.
So it's great to know about layers and scenes and that's this part of the tutorial.
Let's move on to the next one.
I think I've hit those two points home long enough.
All right.
See so in the next video.
All right ladies and gentlemen this one is especially for you artists out there.
So an artist has an ability this talent lies in both you and me.
He has the ability to see what isn't there but could be so with the art that you're doing here.
It all comes from your imagination.
So unlock it.
Tap into it and release it into the art of 3-D graphics.
All right see you guys next video.
Oliver.