Content Tools Reference Guide

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. World Editor

2.1. Menu items

2.2. Toolbar

2.3. Status bar

2.4. Gizmos

2.4.1. Movement gizmo

2.4.2. User data object linking gizmo

2.4.3. Entity linking gizmo

2.4.4. Rotation gizmo

2.4.5. Scale gizmo

2.4.6. Texture projection/scale gizmo

2.5. Keyboard shortcuts

2.5.1. Function keys

2.5.2. Key modifiers

2.5.3. Edit keys

2.5.4. Symbols

2.5.5. Numeric keys

2.5.6. Alphabetic keys

2.5.7. Key combinations

2.6. Mouse controls

2.7. Dialog boxes

2.7.1. Browse For Folder dialog box

2.7.2. Changed Files dialog box

2.7.3. Convert Space dialog box

2.7.4. New Space dialog box

2.7.5. New Space Folder dialog box

2.7.6. Noise Setup dialog box

2.7.7. Placement Controls dialog box

2.7.8. RAW Terrain Import dialog box

2.7.9. Resize Terrain Blends dialog box

2.7.10. Set Slider Limits dialog box

2.7.11. WorldEditor Shortcuts dialog box

2.8. Chunk visualisation modes

2.9. Assets

2.9.1. Models

2.9.2. Shells

2.9.3. Trees

2.9.4. Prefabs

2.9.5. Entities

2.9.6. UserDataObject

2.9.7. Lights

2.9.8. Particles

2.9.9. Textures

2.9.10. Brushes

2.9.11. Special Effects

2.9.12. Misc

2.9.13. Post-Processing

2.10. Panel summary

2.10.1. Object panel

2.10.2. Terrain Texturing panel

2.10.3. Terrain Height panel

2.10.4. Terrain Filtering panel

2.10.5. Terrain Mesh Cut/Repair panel

2.10.6. Terrain Import/Export panel

2.10.7. Project panel

2.10.8. Asset Browser panel

2.10.9. Scene Browser panel

2.10.10. Post-Processing panel

2.10.11. Properties panel

2.10.12. Chunk Textures panel

2.10.13. General Options panel

2.10.14. Navigation panel

2.10.15. Weather Preview panel

2.10.16. Environment Options panel

2.10.17. Histogram panel

2.10.18. BigWorld Messages panel

2.11. Useful notes

2.11.1. Chunks

2.11.2. Portals

2.11.3. Directional lights for outdoor use only

2.11.4. Potential problems placing models and shells

2.11.5. Corrupted space map

2.11.6. Creating spaces

2.11.7. Lock Server (bwlockd) and new spaces

2.11.8. Activity logging

2.11.9. Patrol path editing with User Data Objects

2.11.10. Some useful Python scripts

3. Model Editor

3.1. Menu items

3.2. Toolbar

3.3. Status bar

3.4. Keyboard shortcuts

3.4.1. Function keys

3.4.2. Key modifiers

3.4.3. Edit keys

3.4.4. Symbols

3.4.5. Numeric keys

3.4.6. Alphabetic keys

3.4.7. Key combinations

3.5. Mouse controls

3.6. Dialog boxes

3.6.1. Preferences dialog box

3.6.2. Texture Feed Name dialog box

3.6.3. Model Editor Shortcuts dialog box

3.7. Assets

3.7.1. Models

3.7.2. Shells

3.7.3. Textures

3.7.4. Effects

3.7.5. MFMs

3.7.6. Lights

3.7.7. Animations

3.8. Panel summary

3.8.1. Asset Browser panel

3.8.2. Object Properties panel

3.8.3. Display Settings panel

3.8.4. Animations panel

3.8.5. Actions panel

3.8.6. Level Of Detail panel

3.8.7. Lighting Setup panel

3.8.8. Materials Settings panel

3.8.9. BigWorld Messages panel

3.9. Models and split lens effect from sun

4. Particle Editor

4.1. Menu items

4.2. Toolbar

4.3. Status bar

4.4. Gizmos

4.4.1. Movement gizmo

4.4.2. Scale gizmo

4.5. Keyboard shortcuts

4.5.1. Function keys

4.5.2. Key modifiers

4.5.3. Edit keys

4.5.4. Symbols

4.5.5. Numeric keys

4.5.6. Alphabetic keys

4.5.7. Key combinations

4.6. Mouse controls

4.7. Considerations

4.8. Dialog boxes

4.8.1. Particle Editor Shortcuts dialog box

4.9. Assets

4.9.1. Particles

4.9.2. Textures

4.9.3. Visuals

4.9.4. MFMs

4.10. Panel summary

4.10.1. Asset Browser panel

4.10.2. System panel

4.10.3. BigWorld Messages panel

4.11. Loading a particle system via code

4.11.1. C++

4.11.2. Python

4.12. The Particle System

4.12.1. MetaParticleSystem

4.12.2. ParticleSystem

4.12.3. ParticleSystemAction

4.12.4. ParticleSystemRenderer

5. Tools Consoles

5.1. Realtime Profiling console

5.1.1. Keyboard shortcuts

5.2. Debug (Watcher) console

5.2.1. Keyboard shortcuts

5.3. Histogram console

5.3.1. Keyboard shortcuts

5.4. Python console

5.4.1. Keyboard shortcuts

6. Starting the Tools

7. Asset Browser

7.1. Status bar information

7.2. Context menus

7.2.1. Virtual folder

7.2.2. Sub-folder

7.2.3. Asset list

7.2.4. Asset

7.3. Drag-and-drop

7.3.1. Virtual folder

7.3.2. Sub-folder

7.3.3. Asset file

7.4. Customisation

7.5. Finding assets

7.5.1. Determining the search path

8. Meta Data

9. Panel System

9.1. Manipulating the panels/tabs

9.1.1. Title bar buttons

9.1.2. Drag-and-drop

9.2. Layout management

10. Offline Processor

10.1. Configuring Offline Processor

10.2. Running Offline Processor

10.3. Cluster generation

11. NavGen

11.1. Configuring the space to use NavGen

11.2. NavPoly Generator menu items

11.3. NavPoly Generator status bar

11.4. NavPoly Generator keyboard shortcuts

11.4.1. Symbols

11.5. NavPoly Renderer keyboard shortcuts

11.5.1. Key modifiers

11.5.2. Edit keys

11.5.3. Symbols

11.5.4. Alphabetic keys

11.6. NavPoly Generator mouse controls

11.7. NavPoly Renderer mouse controls

11.8. Statistics dialog box

11.9. Cluster Generate dialog box

11.10. Navpoly Info dialog box

11.11. Navpolys, vertices and adjacency

11.12. Generating the navmesh on multiple machines

11.13. Generating the navmesh

11.13.1. Processing time

11.13.2. Inspecting the navmesh

11.14. Moving entities

11.15. Changing settings

11.16. Discontinuous navmesh

12. 3ds Max and Maya Exporters

12.1. 3ds Max

12.1.1. 3ds Max visual exporter

12.1.2. 3ds Max animation exporter

12.1.3. Data supported

12.1.4. The BigWorld 3dsMax Toolbar

12.1.5. Scriptable BigWorld 3dsMax exporter

12.1.6. Installing the 3ds Max exporters

12.2. Maya

12.2.1. Maya visual and animation exporter

12.2.2. Exporting

12.2.3. BigWorld shelf

12.2.4. Creating Shells

12.2.5. Installing the Maya exporters

12.2.6. Installing the Maya Shelf

12.3. Batch Exporter

12.3.1. What the batch exporter does

12.3.2. Installation

12.4. Exporting custom node hierarchy

12.5. Validation rules

13. Lock Server (BWLockD)

13.1. Installation and configuration

13.1.1. Server

13.1.2. Subversion Revision Control Requirements

13.1.3. Perforce Revision Control Requirements

13.1.4. World Editor

13.1.5. NavGen

13.2. Using a version control system stub

13.3. Enabling spaces for collaborative editing

13.4. Locking an area