Suggestion: We severely need a hide tool

Liked both of your posts. Those are awesome ideas

I was wiring some logic and was reminded of this topic. I'd like to add an even easier alternative suggestion!

There's a much easier way to go about this than a tedious "hide" setting to models or adding a layering system to Kogama. Simply implement a "view as play mode" toggle option for edit mode.

A "view as play mode" option would be beautiful for many reasons, but the most obvious - you can only edit what you see, which makes editing levels that change because of logic much simpler to edit. So if you wanted to make a minute change in one of the game scenes in Theatre Play for example, it would be much easier to see what you're changing without a ton of other models in your way - or god forbid having to adjust a model while INSIDE another model!

It would also encourage efficient and methodical level designing for creators. I assume when you're designing levels for real games, you're going back and forth between adding placeholder graphics and coding UI, while updating both sides as you go along - graphics becoming more detailed and attached to other objects - and UI becoming larger and more functional. This ideology would be implicitly taught to players if they were to use a "see as play mode" option because they would then have to go back and forth between setting up logic that controls a changing model scene and adding or cloning the models that are being put into a scene.

"View as play mode" option = convenience for better scene editing + teaches creators worthwhile methods of development

Basically, if I had the option to choose to edit Puzzle Me 5 as viewed by play mode, I would do it in a heartbeat.



I'll be honest here, you don't even have to dynamically display active logic lines with this idea. "Hide logic" already takes care of that. Not to oversimplify anything here, but this capability already exists: you're just pressing the P button to switch between modes. The catch of the suggestion is that you're only switching the visibility of the two modes while staying in one.

""view as play mode""

The issue with this is that I want to be able to see some models but not some others. A view as play mode without a hide tool would remove this capability. If both of them were added that would be great.

Heh, I like how you made the block circles to find the Area of Base and radius on the Polified Capsule Cylinders Jatsu.

OOH. I know. The hide tool should be like the paint tool. You can paint the objects invisible (slightly less invisible when the tool is selected). When you select the hide paintbrush, there could be two options: make visible and make invisible. That would be a real fast way to remove and add all of your models.

My point here is a paintbrush is not tedious to use