Use this option to snap objects to a predefined grid. Viewport transform gizmo from the local space of your object to world space. If you hit the play icon, the physics will simulate.Ī handy tool is the toggle Local- World Mode, it changes the orientation of the Let’s quickly go through them from left to right. If your pointing on the icons with your mouse, a text with the functionality of (eg scale values other than 1 for a dynamic rigid body object) The background That if the background color of an attribute turns red, you entered a value that isn’t allowed. If you don’t see the attributes panel go to Windows->Attributes then selectĪn object in the scenegraph or the viewport. This canīe achieved by clicking at an empty space in the scenegraph panel. Level of the scenegraph be sure that nothing is selected in the scenegraph. If you want to paste an object on the highest hierarchy Notice that pasted objects are always children of theĬurrently selected object. It is also possible to use CTRL + C to copy objets, CTRL + X to cut objects andĬTRL + V to paste objects. There can be 6 types of objects in your scene: Triangle Meshes, Splines,Ĭameras, Transform Groups, Lights, Terrains and Audio Sources. If you now moveĪround the parent, the transformation of the child is affected too whereas the childĬan be moved around without affecting the parent. Additionally by pressing MMB on the child, dragging it over parent and releasing MMB, the same as above will happen.Īs you can see now, the child is now connected to the parent. Now select your parent and hit Edit->Paste. Select the child in the scenegraph panel and go to Edit->Cut. Now let’s make the appropriate relationship between the two. If you move them around you see that their transformations are independent, the movement of the parent doesn’t affect the child.
Make two TransformGroups and name them Parent and Child. At the very top of the panel you can choose the name of your object. To change the name just select it and go to the attributes panel. Now you can see it in the Scenegraph, its name is transform. To create a new Transform Group go to Create and hit TransformGroup. You can use a TransformGroup to move all the attached objects just by moving the Transform Group since the children inherit the transformations of the parent. The Transform Group is the basic building block of your scene. Let’s just make a little scene with some Transform Groups. It shows all objects you have in your sceneĪnd also the parent-child relationship between your objects. Have it on the screen, just go to menu window and hit scenegraph. on your 3D model)Ī very useful feature of the GIANTS Editor is the scenegraph. Profile gives you the ability to choose different hardware profiles adequate for your system.ĭebug can be used to find errors (e.g. You can also use the Selectable submenu to toggle whether you can selectįurthermore you can toggle the grid and the polycount on and off. If you have large scenes, you can toggle the visibility of lights,Īudio sources, physics and the cameras by checking them on the show submenu. You can select the visual appearance of the object with Shaded (solid surface) or Wireframe (only edges of the object are visible) Now the camera is rotating around your last framed object. Now you can simply click (RMB) on the screen to open the View OptionsĪnd choose Framed Rotate. To change the rotation to Framed Rotate youįirst have to select your object either by clicking on it directly or byĬhoosing it from the scene-graph and the framing the selected object by pressing Level this behaviour is very useful, but if you want to look at one particular You might notice that if you rotate, the camera is rotated. Once and then with the View Options you can choose the camera to view at your Sometimes it’s useful too use different cameras in a scene. If you don’t have a middle mouse button, you can press LMB and RMB instead.īy simply right-clicking into the viewport panel you get the View Options. If its to dark in your scene just create a light by going to Create–>Light.Īlt + LMB = Press and hold the Alt-Key and the left mouse button.Īlt + RMB moves the camera forward and backward. Suggest you quickly open a simple i3d file otherwise you won’t see much of anĮffect. If you have nothing open in your editor I Want to close a window you can simply press the cross right of the panel name. You can adjust the width and height of the panels by dragging the outlines and if you Open other panel windows open the menu option window and enable the panel you want. If you start up the Editor, you might not have all the panel windows open. Open the file game.xml and change the value of controls from false to true. Chapter 07: Content Creation - Artwork Guide.Tutorial 2 - Light functions, global time and rendering text.GIANTS Game Engine v8 Documentation GIANTS Game Engine v8 Documentation
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