Group layers in the layer manager

[Paul Moolenaar]

I work on quite complex scenes and one thing that always bugs me is not having the ability to group and label my layers in the layer manager.

I just worked on a project this week containing around 60 layers and all those could have been made into around 8 groups (buildings, landscape, roads, vehicles, people etc...)

I'm quite particular on how I manage my scenes to make it easier while in production but often the basic nature of the layer manager just doesn't cut it.

[David Arbogast]

You need the Outliner script (it is free: http://script.threesixty.nl/outliner/index.php/). Outliner provides a much more robust layering tool for Max including nested layering. So you can have a "Buildings" layer, and a bunch of sub-layers underneath. Should be just what you're looking for. I like it so much that I keep it docked on the right side of my screen.