0005225: Preserve layers when importing a map

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005225	DarkRadiant	Map Editing	public	25.04.2020 09:35	25.04.2020 09:53

Reporter	Dragofer	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open
Product Version	2.8.0

Summary	0005225: Preserve layers when importing a map
Description	As per 0005175: "Having a way to transfer objects between maps while maintaining layer assignments would actually be quite useful - I often split up my WIPs into smaller .maps for faster load times, and since I sometimes have objects assigned to multiple layers it's sometimes not easy to merge the .maps together layer-by-layer." The approach in your comment sounds perfectly fine: "Such an algorithm could match the layers only by their name of course, so if you happen to import a map that only incidentally has layers with a matching name, it could mess up your target map. But feel free to open another request for this, analogous to the "preserve grouping info" issue. " So: 1) The mapper creates layers in the receiving map to match the names of those of the imported map. 2) If the algorithm finds the receiving map doesn't have layers with the same name, it creates them.
Additional Information	As for prefabs, I don't really think layers are all that useful for them. Grouping is imo more than sufficient for keeping things organised within a prefab.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
25.04.2020 09:35	Dragofer	New Issue
25.04.2020 09:35	Dragofer	Relationship added	related to 0005175
25.04.2020 09:50	Dragofer	Additional Information Updated
25.04.2020 09:53	greebo	Summary	Preserve layers when importing a portable map (.mapx) => Preserve layers when importing a map
25.04.2020 09:53	greebo	Note Added: 0012400
25.04.2020 09:53	greebo	Status	new => acknowledged

greebo 25.04.2020 09:53 administrator ~0012400	I'll generalise the description to include all types of maps, not just those saved in the portable format. It's possible to load the layer info from a .darkradiant file if it's available.