3-D Editor Mode

What is the 3-D Editor mode

• It gives viewport style editing, similar to e.g. blender or other 3-D Editors

• While the mode is active:

  • Snaps main window to the right, width is changeable by dragging the left edge

  • Click objects to select them, and other selection methods

  • You can rotate, move and zoom the camera

  • Move objects by dragging their arrows

  • Multitude of hotkeys (Once again inspired by blender)

Activating Editor Mode

• To activate the editor mode, click the "3-D" button which is part of the toolbar of the "Spawned" tab

Camera Controls

• The camera position of editor mode is independent of the player's position

• The basic camera controls are as follows:

  • Rotate camera: Drag mouse while holding middle mouse button (MMB)

  • Move camera: Hold shift, then drag the mouse while holding MMB

  • Zoom: Hold CTRL, then drag mouse up/down while holding MMB

  • Center camera on selection: Press Tab

Selection Controls

• There are multiple ways of selecting things:

  • Select hovered: Press left mouse button (LMB)

  • Box select: Hold CTRL, then drag a box using LMB

Shift-D Menu

• In cases where the selected object is wrong, you can use the Depth Select menu instead

  • Hover over the object you wish to select

  • Hit Shift + D

  • This brings up a list of all objects underneath your cursor, sorted by distance

Changing object transforms

• Objects can be moved by dragging the axis arrows

• Additionally, hotkeys are available (Basically the same as in blender):

  • G/R/S + X/Y/Z: Enables movement/rotation/scaling along the specified axis (For scaling you can also leave out the axis, to scale uniformly)

  • LMB / RMB: Confirm / cancel edit

• Holding Shift while pressing the axis key will lock the editing on the specified axis. E.g. G, Shift + Z will enable movement, locked to the horizontal plane

• Numeric input: After enabling editing (Rotate / Scale), input numeric values (Supports decimal and negative) to rotate / scale by that amount (Scale is applied as multiplier, rotation is relative)

  • E.g. R + Z + 90 + LMB / Enter will rotate the object by 90 on the Z axis and confirm the edit

Spawning things

• While in edit mode, you can press CTRL-R to repeat the last spawn under your cursor

  • This is very useful for e.g. quickly building an area using outline markers

Shift-A Menu

• Besides the regular "Spawn New" tab methods such as dragging an item into the scene, you can also use the Shift-A menu

• This menu is mostly useful to quickly spawn something where you only have a few options, e.g. colliders, light or markers

  • That way, you don't have to first select the category / variant in the "Spawn New" tab