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    Group your levels using filters

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    Original Article Date: July 10, 2003

    Learn how to group your levels...kind of like what you might have done in V7.

    This is short, sweet and right to the point. :-)

    To group levels together, like you did in V7, download this file and follow these steps:

    • Open the Level Manager and aquaint yourself with the 24 levels. Notice that they have common prefixes...this is to facilitate the easy creation of level filters.
    • Highlight Filters and notice there are "No Filters Available".
    • In the right side of the dialog, do a right-click > New and rename the New Filter to something else such as Base Map.
    • Poke in the Level Group field as shown below.
    • In the resulting dialog, simply select the levels you want to group together.
    • Press OK
    • On the left side of the Level Manager, expand the Filter category.
    • Highlight the newly created filter and note the display of the levels belonging to that filter on the right side.

    Using the method described above, create a new filter called Gas Map and add the the following levels to it:

    cul_TOWN
    cul_TOWN_TEXT
    grd_SEC
    grd_TEXT
    grd_TWP
    hyd_INTERMIT
    hyd_PERINIAL
    hyd_TEXT
    ppl_GAS
    wel_SPOTS

    • To use these new filters, set Temp as the active level then open the Level Display dialog.
    • Turn off all levels
    • Set the mode to Filters and notice the dialog now displays the two filters we created above
    • Turn on and off Base Map just like you would a normal level. Notice that this time you're controlling the display of all levels belonging to that particular filter.
    • Ditto for Gas Map

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