When you have multiple paint layers for a mesh, you can quickly view the paint from a single layer by soloing that layer in the Paint Layers window. The Solo options let you quickly toggle the visibility of all other layers on and off. You can also choose to display the solo paint layer as diffuse color, making it even easier to edit specific layer channels such as Opacity, Specular, and Bump.
To solo a paint layer
- Select the paint layer you want to isolate.
- Click the Layers window menu (
) or right-click the selected layer and select Solo Selected from the pop-up menu. Tip: You can also Alt-click the layer Visibility icon to toggle layer soloing on and off.Only paint from the selected layer displays on your model, and paint from all other layers is temporarily hidden. The Visibility icon for the soloed layer displays in yellow, and Visibility for all other layers is turned off.
To solo a paint layer and display with diffuse color
- Select the paint layer.
- Click the Layers window menu () or right-click the selected layer and select Solo As Diffuse. Tip: By default, you can also Alt-click the layer Visibility icon to toggle the layer soloing on and off. To have the Alt-click hotkey solo the paint layer and display paint as diffuse color, you can change the Alt-Click Paint Layer Visibility in the Paint preferences to Solo as Diffuse.
Only paint from the selected layer displays on your model, with paint displaying as diffuse color.
To unsolo a paint layer
- Click the Layers window menu () or right-click the selected layer and select Unsolo. Note: By default, you can also Alt-click the layer Visibility icon to toggle layer soloing on and off.
Paint from all visible layers displays on your model again.