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Re: Visibility bug with layers nested inside groups

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:20:00 GMT

Hi krios21-

The top level visibility should certainly override any child layers, but there have recently been some issues with computing the right visibility when various blend modes and the like are used. It's very likely that your issue is already fixed but not yet deployed. If you would like to share the file, either publicly or privately to me via PM or mhendric (at) adobe.com, I can confirm that for you (and if not, I need to get right on fixing it :-).

-Mitch

P.S. You may find that, toggling some specific layers on and off causes it to fix itself. In that case, it is even more likely you've hit the condition I'm describing. It's also a way to work around the issue (even though it's inconvenient).

Visibility bug with layers nested inside groups

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:50:39 GMT

I've noticed that if a group's visibility is toggled off, any layers nested inside with individual visibility toggled on will still display. So Extract is not honoring the parent container's visibility setting. Visibility also breaks when using Layer Comps. To better illustrate:

[off][group]
- [on][layer 1]
- [on][layer 2]
- [on][layer 3]

All layers will still show.

[off][group]
- [off][layer 1]
- [off][layer 2]
- [off][layer 3]

Visibility behaves correctly.

When handling a few layers it's not much of a deal. But often times my workflow requires me to group a large amount of layers with various visibility settings.

Can you guys look into it? Much appreciated!