Store Previous Layer View?

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Does anyone know if it is possible to store the previous view for a whole layer in HWA?

I can do it with a active with the paste into background but can find no way for a whole layer. What im trying to do is apply a effect and store that view then apply a new effect over that. Im trying to make the RPG style transitions to the battle where the screen spins and scales down fading into black but it stores the last stage of the view always.

Also with the paste into background that doesn't bake the effect view so if you switch effect after done it changes all. What would be good now for HWA is another option to do it with or without the current effects.

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I'm not sure about an actual means of doing it, but there might be workarounds. Is it possible to do a separate level or subapp that retrieves the display from the previous frame as its background? EDIT: simple testing definitely made that appear not to work at all in HWA

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Yeah i tried a few things but with no luck. There could be a few workarounds as you say but things like screen capture then re-loading would probably not be smooth at all and also require external files and slow downs which i want to avoid.

I tested a few things but there seems to be problems with storing a image with applied effects for objects like overlay redux and it also seems buggy as did other things. The other idea would be to code a HWA effect that did it and add that to the other effects you need but i have no idea how to do that. Also this would possibly only work for a single layer so maybe not good also.

Right now it seems like there would need to be some sort of new options/object added.