What does “way off” mean, exactly?
You do not need to have each shape on a different layer. Using ‘Power Scale’, you could have 100 shapes produced at different power levels, all form a single layer. While this was produced over 3 years ago (
), the concept is the same.
This entire post is worth review.
You have not shared how you have set that tool, what you expected, nor what the resulting produced. If you provide the details, @glennwilton (the author of that neat tool) and others might be able to offer useful feedback and suggest some workflows that should work for you.