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Hoptoad
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Feature request: Collapse all layer groups.

A button would be nice, located on the Layer panel (near the Hide Vitruvian Layers button).

Thanks.
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As in making sure all layers are folded? Or something else?

Because I learned if you press Alt and click on one of those little arrow keys for opening and closing folders, it'll collapse all of them if it's open! (Or reopen all of them if it is closed!)
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TheMinahBird wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:56 pm As in making sure all layers are folded? Or something else?

Because I learned if you press Alt and click on one of those little arrow keys for opening and closing folders, it'll collapse all of them if it's open! (Or reopen all of them if it is closed!)
Collapsing or folding, yes.

Alt+click collapses one group, which is great. But I sometimes have a bunch of characters "expanded," so I would have to Alt+click on several different characters to collapse everything.

I found a script that collapses every open folder, but I'd still prefer a button.

When I have several characters in a scene and all of them have many folders expanded, I get characters mixed up. After all, every character has a group called "head," for example. A button would allow me to close everything when the Layers Window becomes confusing.
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Re: Collapse all layers

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OH! I see, you mean literally ALL instantly! Well hopefully someone can make a script for you! It seems simple enough (but I'm not sure, I'm bad at scripting ^^; so maybe it's a challenge and I'm overstepping).
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Hoptoad wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:28 pm ... I found a script that collapses every open folder, but I'd still prefer a button...
There was another Button solution from EricTheFish in the original topic: Collapse all layers

But you can also make any Menu script a Button by copying it to the <custom content folder>/Scripts/Tool/ folder, with or without a same name png icon file.
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Re: Collapse all layers

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SimplSam wrote: Thu Nov 16, 2023 3:46 am There was another Button solution from EricTheFish in the original topic: Collapse all layers

But you can also make any Menu script a Button by copying it to the <custom content folder>/Scripts/Tool/ folder, with or without a same name png icon file.
Oh! I overlooked (or forgot) that the button solution was already available.

Thanks for the information about how to make a Button. The Menu script works fine, but the next time I find myself wishing it was a button, I'll make it a button.
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