Editing Decoration Palette (section)

==Visible Versus Hidden Decoration==
The items in the palette can be in either of the following states:
* Visible - decorations that are placed into the environment will automatically be added to the palette list and designated as "Visible".
* Hidden - decorations that are placed directly into the palette (by dragging them into the palette window) are designated as "Hidden". Hidden decorations are located in the palette, and not in the environment (thus their coordinates are listed as 0,0,0). In other words, a hidden decoration is '''''not''''' an item that was placed in the environment and then subsequently made invisible; it is a decoration that has been placed directly into the palette (which means it is '''''not''''' in the environment, and so it does not show there). In essence, the decoration is "hidden" from players who cannot see the Decoration Palette.

The use of the term "Hidden" in this context can be confusing, but the following analogy may help clarify how it relates to the state of the decoration.

You can think of the Decoration Palette as being like a painting palette.
The paint on the palette is like decorations that have been placed in the Decoration Palette.
The environment (a lot, house, basement, or dungeon) is like a canvas to paint on.
And for this analogy, other players can only see the canvas, and cannot see your paint palette.
You can take the paint from the paint palette, and brush it on the canvas (in which case the paint becomes "visible" to those who can see the  canvas).
The paint palette can hold many other colors of paint that have not been put on the canvas yet (and the paint on the palette is "hidden" from those who can only see the canvas).