Blender 2 82 Layers
Instead of sorting objects onto different scene layers you can sort them into different collections.
Blender 2 82 layers. Renders can be separated into layers to composite them back together afterwards. Layers manual and here. And it offers also the blend modes like multiply add mix overlay etc. Because many users are not familiar with the node editor and the node editor doesn t give a clear overview this add on is very useful.
Layers and groups have been replaced by collections these are used for organizing objects in a scene instancing groups of objects and linking groups of objects across blend files. Mephist0 ported the texture paint layers addon over to blender 2 8. That means we have now layers like in most painting software. View layers and collections collections.
With the layer painter addon we can make complex materials without using the node editor. How it now works is explained here. Blender 2 90 manual scenes objects view layers. I am not painting that much but after an hour i got the hang out of it.