I'm following this tutorial to put portals in Blender for a project I'm working on. Everything was going smoothly until I got to 9:33 in the video, where I have to set render layers for specific objects. The shortcut listed in the video is M, and should pull up this context menu:
But in 2.9, M pulls up this context menu:
I searched through all of the Properties menus and windows, and the closest I could find was the View Layers, but I didn't think that was correct. Are the View Layers correct? Did the developers just completely remove the Render Layers feature entirely? If both of those are false, where can I find the render layers?
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2$\begingroup$ View Layers have not replaced the former layers. Former Layers are now replaced by the Collections, which work differently (not so complicated though) $\endgroup$– moonbootsCommented Aug 20, 2021 at 21:07
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The old layers and the "new" collections essentially work the same way. It's a way to organize your scene, and toggle each layer on/off, nothing more. Collections are much more useful though, as you can clearly see them in your outliner, and toggle many properties of it, like viewport- and render display, holdout, selectability, etc, which apply to all items in that collection.
You can read all about collections here: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/scene_layout/collections/collections.html
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1$\begingroup$ Objects can also exist in more than one Collection at the same time $\endgroup$ Commented Aug 20, 2021 at 21:56