I am working on a new project, but it would be MUCH easier if I had a modified layer feature. I was thinking about shading in the sectors with colors depending on the layer, (layer hand is translucent red, layer torso is translucent blue...) so that I don't need to hide layers to know which parts belong to which layer. This may be helpful to others, but I don't know how hard this would be to add (or if Bender's even around to add it...)
Does anyone else think this would be helpful?

That might be hard to do with lots of nodes

If nothing else, maybe a feature to highlight all sectors of the same layer as the currently-selected sector, or something like that..

good point. How about having the color as a setting in the f4 menu.
ex:
for the color red
Just have a list of maybe 10 colors (or an input for the rgb values) that can be set for each node individually.

ooh... yeah, doing it that way should work; putting it in the Jed Options menu, as I was originally thinking (where you change the grid, axes, background etc colors) would not be the optimal choice of implementation

This would definitely be a useful feature