How to I lock a layer?

[mystd]

I often mess up my art when I forget on which layer I am, can I lock down layers so I can't draw on the wrong one?

[Greenlaw]

That's a feature many users, including myself, have been requesting for a long time.

Personally, I wish I could lock Reference layers. To keep artists from animating the Reference layers, I append the title with REF_[layer name] and then I color code the layer red. This doesn't prevent someone from editing the layer but it helps make it more obvious that you shouldn't.

As for an actual 'lock' button, hopefully, we'll see that in a future release.

[synthsin75]

Here's a menu script that locks layers. This works for all selected layers and will toggle the locked state.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/di9 ... r.zip?dl=0

[Greenlaw]

Thanks! I'll give it a shot on my personal setup.

[chucky]

Oh Awesome Wes!
Installing now.

[chucky]

Oh Awesome Wes!
Installing now.

Ahh so ,I normally only want this when I want to re-time an entire document with messing up my particles.
That means I run the re time script, which overrides the syn script.
Is there a way to fix that?
Also is there a way to identify the layers that are locked visually?
Oh here's a couple of icons.


They look a little invisible here, I have done them in the Moho12 style, may need a line in the script to get the highlights to work, I don't know about that stuff.

[synthsin75]

Hey Chucky, are you talking about Animation>Rescale Keyframes? If so, I doubt they wired that up to respect locked layers, and there's no way for a script to stop it.

This version uses your colorized icon (and works so much better as a button...I'd been using it as a menu script). I've also made it to where it will add "(LOCKED)" on the end of your layer names when locked. Let me know if it would work better at the beginning of the layer name (or maybe something shorter, like "(X)" or something).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/di9qqlq4mho4k ... r.zip?dl=0

[chucky]

OH that works great!
I love the rename trick, nice one!
I will definitely keep this..
I had an idea about the retime menu script.
Maybe that could be modified to ignore layers with LOCKED in the name?
Just an idea.
I get caught with that all the time.
Just a few days ago I was working on the Retro Space Pack and needed to add some seconds at the start.
I applied the script and kept animating only to realise later on that (NOOO!) did it again and all my particles animations were stretched and I had to waste valuable time manually fixing all those layer's animations.
I actually wish that script had an 'ignore particles' setting but a if it could work with your locked button that would be awesome.

[synthsin75]

Animation>Rescale Keyframes is not a script, it is hard-coded, so it can't be modded. That would have to be done by the devs, so you might want to report it.

[chucky]

Animation>Rescale Keyframes is not a script, it is hard-coded, so it can't be modded. That would have to be done by the devs, so you might want to report it.

Yeah I did do a that while back ( I think) I'll check that now.

[synthsin75]

I've updated this script so that you cannot even select locked layers after frame zero:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/di9qqlq4mho4k ... r.zip?dl=0

[Greenlaw]

Cool! Thanks Wes.

[striker2311]

I've updated this script so that you cannot even select locked layers after frame zero:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/di9qqlq4mho4k ... r.zip?dl=0

Thanks synthsin I'll try too

[SimplSam]

HeHe .. I made a small hack to this a while ago, to include a lock symbol on the locked layer.

Code: Select all

function Syn_LockLayer:Run(moho)
	local lock_prefix = "🔒 " -- len == 5
	for i=0, moho.document:CountSelectedLayers()-1 do
		local layer = moho.document:GetSelectedLayer(i)
		layer:SetLocked(not layer:IsLocked())
		local name = layer:Name()
		if (layer:IsLocked()) then
			layer:SetName(lock_prefix .. name)
		else
			if (name:sub(1,5) == lock_prefix) then
				layer:SetName(name:sub(6))
			end
		end
	end
end

[synthsin75]

HeHe .. I made a small hack to this a while ago, to include a lock symbol on the locked layer.

Code: Select all

function Syn_LockLayer:Run(moho)
	local lock_prefix = "🔒 " -- len == 5
	for i=0, moho.document:CountSelectedLayers()-1 do
		local layer = moho.document:GetSelectedLayer(i)
		layer:SetLocked(not layer:IsLocked())
		local name = layer:Name()
		if (layer:IsLocked()) then
			layer:SetName(lock_prefix .. name)
		else
			if (name:sub(1,5) == lock_prefix) then
				layer:SetName(name:sub(6))
			end
		end
	end
end

WT?! What text editor are you using that can handle emojis, and since when does Lua interpret them?!