Hide layers tutorial

Hide previously added layers

Takes things you added earlier back off the map — outlines, fills, text, markers, routes — so it is clean before the next subject. Everything an action puts on screen stays until this one removes it.

How to

1. Place the action after the ones it should clear: it only offers actions that come before it.
2. Open Choose action and tick those earlier actions.
3. Then pick which of their layers this hide takes down, in the panel underneath.
4. Set the duration to control how fast the layers fade out.

See also

• Label — Label text is the most common thing to clear once its subject has moved on.
• Border — Border outlines stay on screen after their action ends, so a tour of five countries wants a Hide layers in between.

Last checked 2026-09-03