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All right let's take a look at layers and scenes and how they can be used to help with our production



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and our work flow and to help to really separate out our scene to make it easier to work in.



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So let's take a look at layer's first.



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You've probably seen at this bottom corner here on this Hetter or this bottom navigation window that



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we actually have 20 little squares here and these are the different layers.



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You can see right now we're on Layer 1 which is dictated by this little orange dot here.



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Now we could select and click on any of these layers to go to that respective layer or by hitting one



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two three four five etc. on the keyboard to go to either one of those layers.



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So layers are very useful in that we can separate out parts of our scene so that we can work on certain



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parts of it at a much quicker rate and not be distracted by some things etc..



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Let's take a look at a practical example for example on our first layer Let's go ahead and let's go



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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



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say go from top view.



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I'm just going to hit shiftier and duplicate this a bunch of times.



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And obviously we wouldn't have it lit like this in our actual scene but this is just an example.



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All right.



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So let's say that this is your scene and you're wanting to work on your cube.



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But let's say you have all these lights and you keep clicking on them.



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It's getting annoying because you're trying to click on your cube but you're clicking on your lamps



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instead.



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Well right now it's a little annoying and we can't really separate them out.



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So a way to separate them out is actually if we select all of them by hitting be left click and dragging



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selecting all the lamps to move something to another layer we just hit the M key and then select the



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layer we want to move it to.



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So let's move it to layer 3.



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Now if we hit three on the keyboard or click right here we can go to layer 3 and we can see that our



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lamps are right there and on Layer 1 is our cube.



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So now we can work on our cube and not be distracted by the lamps.



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However if we want the lamps in our scene all we have to do is go to the first layer.



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And if you shift left click on another layer it will display it as well.



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So you can have many different layers displayed so that those things are rendered in your scene or not



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rendered in your scene.



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For example if you just have the first layer selected and where to render this there would be no light



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if you shift left click on your third layer.



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There would be the lights in there and this just allows for you to separate things out so that you can



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work on different parts of your scene.



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We go to the second layer and head shift day and let's add in a mesh.



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Taurus we can bring this out here and let's say we want to work on this and then we want to combine



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it with our first layer.



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We could just shift left shift left click on the first layer and then we would have that as well.



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So layers are really cool.



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They are very useful to help separate out your scene again to move something to a different layer.



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You just select it and hit the end key and then select which layer you want to move it to and to select



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multiple layers.



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Shift left click on the layers.



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Let's take a look at the scene quickly and the scenes is also a good way to separate out your work flow.



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Although in a different way.



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Whereas layers it's still within the same file or it's within the same scene.



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Right here we have all these options here.



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The scene tab is actually not used as often as the layers layers or you will be using them a lot.



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But I do want to show you how you can add a new scene.



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So going up here you could see we have our list of scenes.



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We only have this one that we're in right now.



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We can hit the plus sign to add in a new scene and we could add in a completely blank new scene we could



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link some of the objects to that scene.



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Or we could do a full copy of the scene meaning everything will be copied to our new scene including



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the objects and the settings and everything.



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Now a new scene is what we're going to look at and do.



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But I want to show you something for example if I change the settings here you can see that I've changed



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them.



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If I go over here and click the plus sign and click on new scene you can see that all the settings have



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been reset to the default settings and we have a completely brand new scene right here.



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And this is still the same Blendr file as the one before and you could see that we have our old scene



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over here.



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So this is a way of having different scenes within your file.



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Again the scenes you would not use them as much unless you do in bigger production files and bigger



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productions and you might in the future.



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But I want to show you that option as well for kind of separating out your workflow.



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But for the most part you're going to be using layers a lot so get used to them and get ready to have



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some fun with layers sometimes you fill up all 20 of these boxes with things all over the place.



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So it's great to know about layers and scenes and that's this part of the tutorial.



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Let's move on to the next one.



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I think I've hit those two points home long enough.



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All right.



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See so in the next video.



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All right ladies and gentlemen this one is especially for you artists out there.



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So an artist has an ability this talent lies in both you and me.



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He has the ability to see what isn't there but could be so with the art that you're doing here.



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It all comes from your imagination.



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So unlock it.



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Tap into it and release it into the art of 3-D graphics.



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All right see you guys next video.



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Oliver.