OK, I get it now. That really helps. Now I understand why I wasn't seeing what the tutorial said I should, and why adding the bottom layer is something I'd want to do (the tutorial has this as a necessary second step). Now when I read the tutorial it makes sense. I guess I thought of "mask"...

Thanks for the replies, but neither makes sense. madrobot: I tried rendering (Preview is a rendering of a single frame, right?) but all that does is make the spotlights blurry, it has no effect on the masking. b15fliptop: The bottom layer of the group in this case is called "Wall" and when...

Greetings: I have been reading the tutorials in the Anime Studio Debut User's Guide. Tutorial 2.6 on page 31 suggests that "everything in the group is hidden" upon setting the group mask to "Hide All" in the Masking Group layer. However, the figure shown is not what I see when I ...