Is there a way to group layers in PDN?

[Dinosaure]

Hello,

 

I'm a long fan of paint.NET, and here is my question:

Is there any way of grouping layers together, such that I may move layers 2&4&6 up/down, hide them etc from the same layer manager?

 

I'm doing some pixel-art animation, and I have a common layer for the outer border (that may stay for the entire rendering), and specific primary-secondary-background-raw layers (that I would want to hide independently from each other in a group-based manner) for each frame.

My current solution requires to open multiple files (one per target frame), and some common layer change (likely, the border) have to be done on each file. Or I bury everything in a layer stack hell.

 

That why I need your help. 🙂

 

 

Illustrated example use-case of groupings: a common primary layer, & multiple secondary layers group, & multiple background layers group, a common raw layer

Other use-case: a common border layer, & multiple primary+secondary+background+raw layers groups.

[null54]

19 minutes ago, Dinosaure said:

Is there any way of grouping layers together, such that I may move layers 2&4&6 up/down, hide them etc from the same layer manager?

 

Not currently, but layer grouping is listed in the Popular Feature Requests thread:

 

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Layer "folders", or the ability to organize layers in a hierarchy -- I want this too, and it depends on some major plumbing work being done. This would be a v5.0 / v5.x feature. No ETA.