A plain tile click always makes a new Synapse. Hold a modifier to change the one you have instead. The hint line under the tiles is the reminder: Shift adds · Alt removes.
Add with Shift
- Select the Synapse layer and the layers you want to add.
- Hold Shift and hover a tile. The lines it would add show dashed in the sky, and the caption counts them with a plus.
- Shift-click the tile.
The new lines go into the same Synapse, and every line it had stays. Synapse says how many it added, like Added 3 lines to Synapse.
The new lines follow the layers you selected, in the order you selected them:
| Tile | Shift-click adds |
|---|---|
| Chain | A line through the selected layers in order. When none of them is in the Synapse yet, the chain carries on from the Synapse’s last layer. |
| Hub | Lines from the first selected layer to the others. With only one layer selected, a line from the Synapse’s own first layer to it. |
| Web | A line from each selected layer to every layer in the Synapse and to each other. Like any Web line, it shows only while the pair is within Max Distance. |
Lines the Synapse already has are skipped. If every line is already there, the tile says Linked.
You can skip selecting the Synapse when the comp has only one, or when one of the selected layers is already in it. Synapse adds to that one. Otherwise the tile says No Synapse.
Remove with Alt
Hold Alt (Option on Mac) and every tile reads Remove. The selected Synapse's lines turn red and dashed, and the caption names the Synapse that will go.
Alt-click any tile to delete the selected Synapse layers. Your other layers are untouched.
Removing deletes the Synapse layer with its lines and effect. Undo brings it back. Locked Synapse layers are skipped. With no Synapse selected, the tile says No Synapse.