Tab: Spawn New

Everything there is know to effectively spawn anything you want

Selecting Object Type

• There is a wide range of things you can spawn, so they are organized into categories

• Each category has has multiple variants, with each variant corresponding to a type of node

Check out all the different types and variants

• By hovering over the dropdown for the Object variant you can also bring up a panel displaying some helpful information for the selected variant

Information panel shown when hovering type selector

Spawn Options

• Target group

  • This selector lets you choose a group which to put new objects into

  • You can also hit CTRL-N on the spawned tab to set it to the selected group

• Under the options header you can find:

  • Strip Paths: If this is enabled, resource paths will be shortened: base\object.mesh becomes object

  • Asset preview: Lets you toggle asset preview for the supported object types

  • Spawn position: See next section

Spawn options

Spawn position options

• There are multiple ways of controlling the position in which new objects spawn:

• Use the "Spawn position" selector to determine the position used when simply clicking a list entry to spawn

• Drag and drop a list entry into the scene to spawn it under the cursor

• In 3-D editor mode, use CTRL-R to repeat the last spawn under the cursor

  • Additionally, you can use the Shift-A spawn menu while editor mode is active

Drag and drop directly into the scene

Asset Preview

• Asset preview is available for:

  • With background: Meshes, entities, decals

  • In-Place: Effects, particles, AISpots and sounds

• It gets activated simply by hovering a list entry

Asset preview with background

Searching

• At the very top you can find the main search, which supports pattern matching:

  • E.g. wall.*large will match anything that has the words "wall" followed by some characters, followed by "large" in it

Favorites

• You can make something a favorite either from the "Spawned" tab, or from the "Spawn New" tab

• In either cases, simply right-click the element you wish to make a favorite

• Further information on favorites, prefabs and tags

RHT Integration

• If you see an asset used in the gameworld, you can use RHT to send it directly to WB's search

• This is supported for: Entity, Entity Record, Device, Mesh, Decal, Particle, Effect, Static Sound, AI Spot and Reflection Probe

You can send things you find with RHT directly to WB's search

AMM Props

• You can also import your list of AMM props

  • AMM props will spawned as entity nodes, as they are just .ent files with an alias name

• Do this by selecting Entity -> Template (AMM) then pressing the "Generate AMM Props" button

Select the correct type and variant, then you can import your AMM props list