Tuesday 2 September 2014

Viewports:

  • The keys 'w', 's', 'a', and 'd' are the main keys used to move around the island, aswell as your mouse to manipulate the camera. Holding 'shift' will allow faster movement.Holding the scroll button of your mouse allows for panning, and holding the right button of your mouse allows for manipulating the camera angle. Holding 'ALT+scroll button' will rotate the camera around the middle of the screen.
  • By pressing 'CONTROL+G' this will enter game mode, and will allow manoeuvring through the level using first-person mode 
  • The 'go to position' tab on the bottom of the window will direct the user to a specific position on the level using coordinates.

Using Interface Panels-Overview:

  • 'SHIFT+SPACE' to enable helpers when selecting entities
  • 'Time of Day' allows tweaking of the Sun's position in the sky(time), Sun shine direction, sky, and fog.
  • The 'Roll-up Bar' is a very important feature that allows most customisation functions such as entities, brushes, terrain, rendering, etc.
  • In the roll-up bar, navigating to brush>browser displays all brushes that can be placed on the level. By selecting the name of a brush and dragging it onto the level, this will allow the placement of the brush onto the level
  • The 'Open asset browser', will open a window to allow the browsing of all assets in the level, such as sound, brushes, entities, etc. 

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