Brent Tyler

Ok, I actually think I may have this figured out.

Sublayering brings every file into the same layer at the same time, not taking into account layer order, and it figures out strength by LIVRPS. So in my instance, the material over in the variant is weaker than the initial assignment. I was thinking sublayering was evaluating a layer at a time, like referencing does, then flattening the data after evaluating all the layers. If I'm correct, this explains why layer order in my sublayer didn't matter.

Thanks for the reply! LIVRPS was my first thought as well. I'll dive in and take a closer look at the component builder, but I believe they use referencing over sublayering.

With that said, does it still make sense that my other variant (changing the cube to a sphere) still works in the sublayer setup?

Using H21, although having this issue in 20.5 as well.