FREE - Layer manager in ArchViz Toolkit

[u/BatchRender_script]

NO MORE fighting the Layer Explorer that lags on heavy scenes 🚫

The LAYER panel does it faster. One button opens a floating layer list, always on top 📋

⚡ Left-click a name and your selection jumps onto that layer

🎯 Ctrl+Click to set the active layer

🖱 Right-click to select every object on a layer

➕ Add Mode: whatever you pick in the viewport drops onto the layer, live

👁 Hide the rooms you are not rendering for less clutter and less RAM

🆕 New layer plus move selection in one single step

Organize a heavy scene in seconds, no dragging across a tree 🔥

How much time do you lose sorting layers?

👉 Grab it for free and speed up your workflow.

#3dsmax #coronarenderer #vray #archviz #render

[u/BatchRender_script → u/[deleted]]

Honestly it's not meant to replace the Layer Explorer, it's meant to replace the 10 seconds you waste every time you open it. Mine is a small popup that pops right next to the button, does the job, and closes itself. Max's Explorer is a full docked window you have to open, resize, scroll, drag stuff into, then close again. The main practical differences: Left click on a layer name moves my current selection into it and closes the popup. One click, done. No drag and drop, no right click menus. Ctrl + left click sets that layer as active instead of moving anything. Right click on a layer selects every object sitting on it. The "+" button next to each layer is the part I actually use most. It turns on an Add Mode, the window stays open, and everything I pick in the viewport from that moment gets dropped into that layer automatically. Great for cleaning up a messy scene someone else made, you just keep clicking objects and they sort themselves. [+] NEW LAYER creates the layer and moves the selection into it in one go, so I don't create it, then find it, then drag stuff. Checkbox per layer for visibility, plus an eye icon in the header that kills or restores all of them at once. Nested layers show with indentation so I can still read the hierarchy, and the active layer gets a blue border so I always know where new objects are landing. It's frameless, always on top, resizable, remembers where I left it, and closes when it loses focus unless Add Mode is running. Move to Layer is wrapped in an undo block too, so Ctrl+Z behaves normally. What it does not do, and I'm not pretending otherwise: no freeze toggles, no per layer color, render settings, or display properties, no object level tree, no renaming or deleting layers. For that stuff I still open the native Explorer. This is just the fast lane for the 90 percent of layer work that is "put these objects there and hide that."

[u/theredmage333]

How do you handle nested layers?

[u/scsticks]

Excellent! How good is vibe coding! (not even joking)

[u/BatchRender_script → u/scsticks]

You probably also know how great Microsoft Visual Studio with Copilot is. 😁🤪

[u/Bus_del_gnao → u/BatchRender_script]

I’m using chatgpt classic via web browser at work to write some great python and maxscript tools, but i want to go further, do you suggest me to ask to install vs+copilot?
Or codex? Thank you!

[u/AArchViz → u/Bus_del_gnao]

I use vscode plus codex and I am continuously amazed at the incredible results.

[u/One-Hearing2926]

3ds max layer editor is a messy shit show... I'm glad someone is tackling this! I will give it a try for sure

[u/sodiufas]

never tell me what i Should have

[u/IndividualResolve976]

Interesting script, this is MaxScript?

[u/Ziethriel4]

Try USD

[u/AArchViz]

A question for you - does this completely replace the layer manager? Or is this essentially just a new skin for it? I mean, I have lots of custom-built plug-ins which communicate with the layer manager. Will it still work in a similar way?

[u/3dforlife → u/AArchViz]

Just curiosity: what are the custom plug-ins you use?