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Features

Dmitry Kurtaev edited this page Jul 19, 2016 · 9 revisions

Planets Factory tool used for modeling planetoids.

Working space

After run, you will see main editor view. It's for showing and editing model state.
Navigation:

+---------+------------------------------+
|         |                    | metrics |
| actions |                    +---------+
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|         |                              |
+---------+         editor space         |
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+----------------------------------------+
| console                                |
+----------------------------------------+

Available actions in left top of view:

Title Action Shortcut
Color Enable/Disable drawing on planet's texture Ctrl+c
Palette Select color from palette
Brush size Change drawing brush size
Terrain up Growing up vertices area
Terrain down Growing down vertices area
Grid Show/Hide triangles grid Ctrl+g
Mesh Show/Hide mesh
Save Save model using internal editor's format Ctrl+s
Load Save model from file on disk
Mesh & Grid Grid

For moving camera, move your mouse with pressed right button.

Move mouse with pressed right button and Ctrl key for rotating camera around normal of planet surface.
Move mouse with pressed left button for drawing (check that "Color" action is enabled).

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Enable "Terrain up" or "Terrain down" button for terrain manipulations. Press left mouse button for action.

For saving or loading models, enter corresponding commands into console (just starts writing):

save ./model.my
load ./model.my
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