Ok. How you (or Synfig) did it, I don’t know. But the layers are all messed up.
Let me explain some details:
In above picture, you can see two layers named “head.png”:
- the orange one, whose icon represents a folder with a funnel drawn: it’s a
switch group layer
.
- that one with a duck: an
import/bitmap layer
.
When you import an image, both layers above are automatically created by Synfig Studio.
The Bitmap layer
is responsible for the bitmap image draw itself. The image file it draws is defined by Filename
parameter, as shown in picture below (I rearranged the panel for a simpler screenshot):
The layer name is irrelevant, but it is by default the image filename.
The Switch Group layer
is someway similar to regular Group layer
with a important difference: it renders only one of its contents (also called as children layers
) at a time.
You can see what children is currently selected to be rendered in three ways:
- In Layers Panel, it will be highlighted in bold text;
- In Parameters Panel, the parameter “
Active Layer Name
”;
- In Parameters Panel, the parameter “
Active Layer Depth
”: this parameter only matters if Active Layer Name
is blank/empty and Active Layer Depth
is greater than or equals to 0.
As you reported, and as can be seen in pictures above, head is ok. But let us see “right leg”:
First problem: there are two layers inside “right leg.png” filter group, so only one of them is shown at a time. The currently selected one is the (empty) Group layer name “hand.png”: it’s in bold text. The not-rendered ones have their names underlined.
You should first change the active layer and then delete the empty group.Âą
Now the second problem:
The bitmap layer “right leg.png” is actually referring to file “hand.png” (see Parameters panel).
You should type the current filename there: “right leg.png”.
¹ I noticed a bug: if you try to delete the currently selected layer , an empty group layer will be created o.O So, first, change what layer should be selected to rendering and the delete the useless (and unselected) layer. In this paragraph, “selected” means “selected to be rendered”, “the one in bold text”.