Apple Shake 4 New Features - Manual (Page 94)

94 Chapter 3 Compositing With the MultiPlane Node
Deleting Parent Layers
When you disconnect a layer that’s being used as a parent, a warning appears:
Clicking Yes removes the parent layer, eliminating the parent-child hierarchy. The
remaining layers’ parentTo parameters still show the original layer, in the event you
decide to reconnect it later on.
Showing and Hiding Layers
You can toggle the visibility of layers. For example, if you need to transform a layer
that’s hard to select because it’s obscured by other layers in the composition, you can
“solo” it to hide all other layers, or simply hide the individual layers that are in the way.
HIdden layers are not rendered.
To show or hide layers, do one of the following:
m Right-click a layer in the Viewer, and turn it on or off in the Plane Visibility submenu.
The Plane Visibility submenu also has commands to Hide All Planes and Show All
Planes.
m Open the Images tab, then click the Layer Visibility button for that layer.
To solo a layer:
m Open the Images tab, and turn on the Solo button for that layer.
When you solo a layer, every other layer in that MultiPlane node is hidden.
Animating Layers
Layer transformations within the MultiPlane node can be animated similarly to the
parameters within any of Shake’s transform nodes. For more information on keyframing
parameters, see Chapter 10, “Parameter Animation and the Curve Editor,” on page 291
of the Shake 4 User Manual.
Attaching Layers to the Camera and to Locator Points
When you import camera path or 3D tracking data into a MultiPlane node, you gain the
ability to attach layers to the camera, or to one of the locator points distributed within
the 3D workspace.