Ui Hidden

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Tag Info
Syntax [ui-hidden]
Alias [ui-h]
Used On [dynamic] children • items
Requires [palette][color-picker]

The ui-hidden tag hides the color picker (paintbrush) button for an item in the player UI without hiding the item itself. When applied to a child layer inside a [dynamic] folder, the player can still browse and select that item, but the color-editing controls will not be shown for it. This is useful when a piece of artwork should be selectable but not colorable — for example, a non-recolorable accessory that lives alongside recolorable items in the same category.

Example of PSD (right) and Game (left) without the [ui-hidden] tag. When selecting the item in the game, a paintbrush appears to change the color of each palette layer.
If the [dynamic] layer has the [ui-hidden] tag, when selecting an item in the game, the paintbrush does not appear to select any color from any [palette] children.
If the [ui-hidden] tag is used together with the [palette] tag, then only these will not appear in the paintbrush.

Usage

The tag is written as [ui-hidden] or its short alias [ui-h]. It must be placed on a layer that is a direct child of a [dynamic] folder or on a layer inside a [palette] group.

For a `[dynamic]` child, adding `[ui-hidden]` means the item still appears in the selection carousel, but no color selector is displayed when it is active.

For a `[palette]` child, `[ui-hidden]` removes the item from the color picker list. The exception is when `[removable]` is also present — in that case the item stays in the list with its visibility toggle intact, but still without the paintbrush button.

Additional Tags to Use with Ui-Hidden

[removable] — Combine with [ui-hidden] on a [palette] child to keep the visibility toggle available while still hiding the color picker. Without [removable], [ui-hidden] removes the item from the color picker (paintbrush) completely.

[dynamic] — The parent tag for the category folder that [ui-hidden] children belong to. Items inside [dynamic] that should not be colorable at paintbrush are the primary use case for [ui-hidden].

[color-picker] — If your uses the [color-picker] tag alongside [ui-hidden], is the equivalent of use [color-picker:hidden] to hide its paintbrush button.