Arranging the Emitter Guide
The Emitter Guide is a stack of coloured sections — Generation, Termination, Geometry with its subsections, and the rest. On a real effect that stack gets long, and the section you keep coming back to is rarely the one at the top.
Three features exist to fix that: you can reorder the sections, work in Solo Section mode so only one is open at a time, and jump to any scrolled-away section from the shortcut strips at the panel's edges.
All of it is a display preference of the editor, not part of the effect. Nothing here changes the effect, is written into the effect file, or shows up in Undo — your arrangement simply follows you from one effect to the next, including reflected emitters.
Reordering sections
Press a section's coloured header and drag it up or down. A blue line shows where it will land; release to drop it there. The panel scrolls by itself if you drag towards the top or bottom edge.
There are two separate groups, and a section stays in its own:
- The subsections of Geometry (Origin, Size, Rotation, Colour, Transparency, Texture) reorder among themselves, inside Geometry.
- Everything at the top level — Generation, Custom Values, Termination, Start Position, Change Position, Self Rotation, Geometry as a whole, and Attached Emitters — reorders among themselves.
You cannot drag a subsection out of Geometry, and you cannot drag a top-level section into it. Dragging Geometry itself moves the whole block, with all its subsections along with it.
A short click without dragging still just collapses or expands the section, as it always did.
Putting the order back
The ⋮ button in the panel's title bar has Reset Section Order, which restores the built-in order. It is greyed out when nothing has been reordered. The reset affects the order only — it does not switch Solo Section off.
Solo Section mode
The Solo Section button in the panel's title bar switches how sections open:
- Off (default) — sections work independently, exactly as before. Open as many as you like.
- On — opening a section closes the others, so there is at most one open section and no long scroll through everything at once.
Clicking the section that is already open closes it, which leaves everything collapsed — that is a normal state, not something the mode fights against.
The two nesting levels are independent. Geometry stays open while you solo through its subsections; otherwise soloing a subsection would close the very section that contains it. So "one open section at the top level, plus one open subsection inside Geometry" is exactly what you get.
Switching the mode on tidies up right away: the first open section of each level is kept and the rest are closed.
Shortcut strips
When a section's title scrolls out of view, a small strip appears at that edge of the panel — the top strip for sections above the visible area, the bottom strip for sections below it. A strip only appears when it has something to show.
Each button is a small square in that section's own colour, with its own icon, and the section's name as its tooltip. Buttons follow the same order as the sections themselves, so what is higher in the panel is further to the left in the strip. Geometry's subsections get buttons too.
Click a button to go to that section: the panel scrolls to bring it fully into view — as far as its height allows — and opens it. With Solo Section on, that also closes the others, just as clicking the section's header would.
If more sections are hidden than there are buttons that fit across the panel, the remainder go into a » menu at the end of the strip.
The strips are drawn over the content rather than pushing it aside. That is deliberate: it means nothing under your cursor shifts at the moment a strip appears or disappears. The section beneath a strip is partly covered, but that is a section whose title has already scrolled away — which is precisely why it has a button in the strip.