Tuesday, 29 July 2014

10 tips and tricks related to the Sandbox User Interface:


1.       Wireframe mode can be accessed by pressing the button F3 and right clicking of the mouse on moving it to perspective
2.       Typing the object into the bar by name filter AND removes all object from the land except that object you typed in and vegetation and the terrain. For example: if you type in lighthouse, all object will be removed except the lighthouse, vegetation and terrain
3.       Time of the day allows you to controls which time of the day you prefer by controlling the position of the sun or by controlling how dark you want it to be
4.       By using the rollup bar you can hide and unhide whatever objects you want from the video by using the TV screen bar where you can hide by category or render setting
5.       Terrain button allows you to control the height of the terrain and the steepness of it
6.       When an object has been selected the X,Y,Z  button allows the object to be moved in that axis
7.       The “snap to grid” tool can also be used to move an object eg, by creating a grid and scaling you can choose if move a house 0.5 meters in the x direction.
8.       The Goto position buttons allows you to move back to exact position you were in before if you have saved that position
9.       AI/physics places you in game mode or otherwise you can hold down CTRL+G
10.   The ruler tool allows you to measure the distance between two objects
By clicking the view and show console allows you to control the noises that you want in the forest

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