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Add-on View Layer Plus
View Layer Plus

Seamlessly extend View Layers management.
Add-on by Trukas
About What's New Reviews Version History

Seamlessly extend View Layers operations !

This addon helps the compositing/rendering process in three ways:


1. COMPOSITING

menu contextual_menu

This addon discreetly adds a new "View Layer" menu in the compositor panel and new entries in the right-click contextual menu for easier access with the following operators:

  1. Enable View Layers for selected render layers nodes
  2. Disable View Layers for selected render layers nodes
  3. Enable all View Layers in scene
  4. Disable all View Layers in scene
  5. Enable View Layers for unmuted render layers nodes only (press M to mute a node)
  6. Enable View Layers for selected render layers nodes only
  7. (Bonus) Switch to View Layer of the selected render layer

2. MANAGER

manager

This addon also allows you to manage your View Layers like any other Blender lists:

  1. Switch to a View Layer
  2. Enable/Disable View Layer
  3. Add/Remove View Layer
  4. Special Menu for more sorting options
    • Sort by name
    • Sort by name in reverse
    • Move to top
    • Move to bottom
  5. Move Layer up or down
  6. Copy/Paste from all Layer Collection render settings
    • (note: View Layers Passes and AOVs are deprecated as other addons already support it, for a more in depth way to manage these properties I suggest Blender Bob's Render Manager)

3. OUTLINER

outliner outliner_menu

Finally, it adds a quick way to copy from the outliner the selected Collections render settings:

  1. Copy selected Layer Collections render settings (exclude, holdout, indirect_only, hide_viewport) to selcted View Layers

CUSTOMIZE

user_preferences

Now fully customizable. Show or hide every menu and panel as you wish.

Happy Blending :)


What's New

1.2.5 March 29th, 2026

fix: 5.1 compatibility (removed bpy.utils.previews.load() keywords)

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Developer
Trukas
Rating
(4)
Version
1.2.5
Updated
2 mo
Published
July 19th, 2025
Downloads
5849
Size
61.7 KB
Compatibility
Blender 4.2 LTS and newer
Report Issues
github.com/Trukasss/ViewLayerPlus
License
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
Compositing User Interface
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Reviews

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  • Miquel-Oller
  • v1.2.5
  • 2 w

I've always felt that working on a scene while you configure view layers, for prototyping and comparing options, to be a mess and a time hurdle more than anything else. For me the biggest time saver is the ability to batch configure visibility of collections. I no longer need to be switching between layers and filling up my vram pool just to toggle one newly added collection off.

thank you so much!

  • D3W3
  • v1.2.5
  • 1 mo

Great addon, just installed it and already a must have for me.

  • Jaye.Antoni_Whyldz
  • v1.2.4
  • 2 mo

Wonderful addon, but it appears t be broken in the most recent version The addon is broken in 5.1 it throws me an " ImagePreviewCollection.load() got an unexpected keyword argument 'path " erorr whenever i try to enable it, it even happens if you try to instal it in a factory reset version of blender

  • Trukas replied
  • 2 mo

Thanks for the report ! It is fixed in v1.2.5

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