Event/Action and Layers With Similar Strings

How do I...?
1

Imagine you have a few layers called background, groundDirt, groundStone, groundBrick, charSprite, hud.

Is there a way to do a “show all layers with ‘ground’ in the name”?
It’s either this or I’ll have to go through tons of actions or comparing with tons of events.

Thank you in advanced!

2

You can group them likeso:

if ShowLetters variable = 1 
             Show layer a
             Show layer b
             Show layer c
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Could you please explain this a little more? I need the fundamental understanding before I need the solution, that way I don’t forget it.

Is ShowLetters a custom variable? I’m afraid I can’t make heads or tails of this solution.

Thank you!

4

Hi

ShowLetters was a variable indeed. If you’re not familiar with variables, check this page :slight_smile:

When you want to show all the ground layers, turn the variable to 1 and the snippet above will show them.
Then you need to make the same with variable = 0 to hide the layers if necessary.

We’re grouping layers under a single variable to avoid multiplying the events, then we’ll turn this variable to 0 or 1 depending on whether we want to see the group of layers or not.