Component in background layers not visible

[spencercharles]

When I place a component in the background layer, the component is not visible in the glyph editor window, but shows as placed in the Base Glyph list.

[spencercharles]

@gferreira Ah! Great to know, thank you.

[gferreira]

this is a common catch when switching from RF1 to RF3: in RF3 components refer to glyphs in the same layer, while in RF1 components refer to glyphs in the foreground layer.

the docs have been updated to make this clearer:

• Changes from RoboFont 1.8 to 3 > New implementation of layers
• Components > Introduction

[connor]

Is the component linked to that same layer? Now that ufo3 supports layers, each layer is completely independent and you can't place components across different layers:(