How to Use Layers

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	Layers are a Surveyor tool that allows you to better manage the objects that are placed in your Trainz World.
	Layers are a Driver tool that allows you to change what the players see as they drive around your Trainz World.

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The Layer Tool

Click the Layers Tool to open up its properties.

The layers are organised into two groups:-

• Route Layers in the top section, and
• Session Layers in the lower section.

With the Layer Tools (Add, Delete, Merge and Lock) below them.

Each section contains multiple layers - the scroll bars next to the layers indicate that there are more layers in each section.

Loading a Route and Loading a Session

The layers you will see will depend on whether you have loaded into Surveyor a Route by itself (with no "child" Session) or a Session and its "parent" Route.

The image on the left shows the layers that will appear if the route only is loaded into Surveyor. Note that a default "session-layer" is present. An empty default "session-layer" is always present when only the route is loaded into Surveyor. The image on the right shows the layers that will appear if a session based on that route is loaded into Surveyor. In both cases, the Route Layers are identical because the same route has been loaded. A session contains layers, the Session Layers, that are not saved with the route. If you load a route without a session and add objects to the "session-layer" then those objects will be gone the next time you load the route without the session because a new empty "session-layer" will be created each time a route is loaded without a session.

Creating a New Route

When a brand new route is created it will come with two layers, a single "route-layer" and a single "session-layer".

Both layers will be empty (the baseboard with its grid is saved with the route but is not in any layer). A layer can be renamed at anytime by double clicking on its name with the left mouse button and typing a new name.