Locking layers, better layer layout

[Aussie iTV]

Hi there,

Just wanting to know if this is intended or not, but when you lock layers within a group, but not the group itself, the entire group can still be moved as one object, not just the unlocked layers within it when the group is selected.

Attached is something I'm working on, and as the screenshot shows, the dirt mounts around the tombstone are locked but the tombstone itself is not, but if I select the group in the layers menu, and move the selection it moves everything in the group, not just the tombstone, which I thought it'd only move the unlocked layers in the group.

 

Secondly, is there a better way to have the 3 layers relating to the ground around the tombstone setup, where I can group them independently of the tombstone but still have the front obstructing the tombstone as necessary... I am only aware of two ways to do the obstructing, firstly how I have done it in the screenshot, and then to make the front ground layer a child object of the tombstone itself. Is there a third option?

I am still very much a newbie to using this software, including any competitor version of the software.

 

Thanks,

Aussie

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7 hours ago, AussieGamerGuy92 said:

Just wanting to know if this is intended or not, but when you lock layers within a group, but not the group itself, the entire group can still be moved as one object, not just the unlocked layers within it when the group is selected.

Unfortunately, the concept of "locking" layers is very unusual in Affinity - because it does not protect the contents of the layers from being accidentally deleted/modified/moved, as might be expected and assumed, but only limits the selection of the layer by clicking on the canvas/document.