Overview

Here you will find general options for the editor. Some options will vary depending on the Editor Modes.

Find filter	This is where you type in what you are looking for.
Х button	Cancel typing. It is VERY* easy to forget about clearing the Find field and then spend minutes wondering where all the properties are!* So, be sure to clear it up from any words or letters after locating the property you have been looking for. What you type into this field works as a filter, showing you only a handful of properties, that correspond to filter. Use the \|X\|* button or your Del key on a keyboard to clear the field.*
	Shows only the properties that were changed.

Scene Options

Hint

Option	Description
Super Tip	By hovering the cursor over a surface for a second, you can find out more information on the model, texture, lights, materials. This is a feature called Super Tip. This can perform slowly while working with particles or other animations. You can disable it to improve performance. When disabled, you can invoke this command by holding Ctrl for one second.
Properties Tip	By hovering the cursor over a property, you can reveal more detailed information with the Properties Tip Delay.
Properties Tip Delay (ms)	Delay in milliseconds before the Properties Tip appears.
On Load Hints	Helpful hints that are displayed on the progress window while the map loads.
Icons	Clip hint icons (over decals, scripts, etc.). Clip. Draw (show hint icons on certain entities such as scripts, covers).
Static Material	Hovering the cursor will reveal information about the static material.
Dynamic Material	Hovering the cursor will reveal information about the dynamic material.
Affecting Lights	Hovering the cursor will reveal information about the affecting lights.
Highlight Object	Will show a hint when objects are highlighted.

Common

Option	Description
Notify File Changing	A notification will appear when you change files in your project.
Load Confirmation	A notification will appear to confirm whether you want to reload your level.
Delete Confirmation	A notification will appear to confirm that you want to delete an object.
Apply Weather from Dropped Screenshots	If enabled or set to "Ask every time", dragging a screenshot into the viewport (Scene#Locations) will set the weather in your scene to match that screenshot.
Draw Grid	Draw a debugging grid in the scene.
Draw Histogram	The histogram allows you to see the distribution of brightness in the current frame. It is important for approving correct lighting regardless of the monitor settings or brightness in your work environment. If the histogram is dominated by black (where the majority of the graph is concentrated in the lower 20%), then this will be a problem on all screens. If the histogram shows most of the graph in the middle, yet you are making a stealth zone, this means that your environment is overexposed. The histogram is divided into two panels. The left panel is before post-processing and camera adaptation. The right panel is after post-processing and adaptation.
Shapes Draw Mode	Solid. Wire – Recommended. Wire Top. This is useful for viewing editorial volumes. In different modes, it is drawn in different ways.
Visible Shapes Opacity	Transparency of visible debugging forms.
Invisible Shapes Opacity	Transparency of invisible debugging forms.
Camera Slow Turn	Сamera rotates ten times slower.
Undo Levels	Size of the undo stack.
Recent Files Limit	Recent files stack size.
Energy Save Timeout	Idle time before the application goes to sleep (in milliseconds).
Activate Window on Load	Self-explanatory.
Move Selection on Delete	Outdated.
Always Ask Before Deleting Exposed	Self-explanatory.
Mouse Sensitivity	Mouse sensitivity.
SpinEdit Increment	Delta applied to the property value when pressing arrow buttons in the property grids (global value: by default, each value has its own increment).
Use Global SpinEdit Inc	Uses the global increment from SpinEdit Increment.
Relative Rotation	Rotation with other logic.
Right Mouse Movement	Allows you to use RMB to move objects.
Right Mouse Clone	Allows you to clone by dragging with LMB + RMB (default mode is CTRL + LMB).
Persist Manipulators	Draws scale/rotate/move manipulators when all other editor rendering is disabled.
Show Color Stat	Shows the cursor color stats on the bottom panel.

Auto Backup

Create autobackups

Option	Description
Interval (minutes)	Creates auto backups every N minutes.
Number of Backups	Amount of backups stored. If at full capacity, it will remove the oldest backup to create a new backup.

Misc

Option			Description
		Squint	Applies the squint camera track.
		Enable FOV	Enables Field of View.
		FOV	Value for the Field of View.
		Custom Textures Path	Custom path to texture sources, used during reveal in explorer operations.
		Custom Image Editor Path	Allows you to customize the path to the necessary Image Editor for opening the textures. If this field is empty, the textures will open in Adobe Photoshop.
		Explore In	Specific program to use for reveal in explorer operations (e.g. total commander).
		Pause on Covers Done	When activating the game mode, this is an additional confirmation box that pauses the game once it has calculated the cover system.
		Render Inactive	Shows COVERS and other debug information not only in the Scene Mode but also in the Navigation Mode. Very useful when fixing the navmesh, if covers are already present on it.
		Incremental Ray Select	Sometimes objects may be located in the same coordinates, with several objects overlapping each other which prevents you from easily selecting them. By default, the object closest to the camera will be selected with an LMB click. You can use the Incremental Ray Select option to select objects in the order of distance from the cursor.
		PPS Enabled	Per pixel selection.
		Pick Readonly By Property	Allows you to Select Objects by Property.
		Highlight Selected	All Selected objects are rendered as highlighted.
		Highlight Blink	ColorAnim is used to highlight animated objects.
		Clone Confirmation Message	Self-explanatory.
		Spawn Tool Delete Confirmation	Self-explanatory.
		Rename Confirmation	When renaming an object in the editor, this allows you to see the list of VS blocks that reference the object by name.
		Preview Add Object	Instant spawn or preview-dragging when spawning an object.
		Highlight Banned	Highlights objects that use banned models or textures.
Highlight Instances		Memory Min, %	Will be highlighting only the props (effects or entities) which occupy at least the "Min" % of the memory.
		Memory Max, %	Will only highlight the props (effects or entities) that occupy no more than the "Max" % of the memory.
	Grade 0,1,2,3	Refs <=	The instances count of static props (effects or entities) less than which will be highlighted on the level.
	Grade 0,1,2,3	Color	Color can be customized by the Color Picker.
		Deferred Object List	This will not update the object list panel unless it is in focus.

Render

Option	Description
Resolution Factor	Scales resolution.
Fixed Resolution	Picks resolution from the predefined list.

Utils

Option	Description
Auto Rebuild Shaders	While the editor is running, this rebuilds shaders when they are changed.
Force Full Shader on Update	This disables default shader placeholders while compiling shaders in the background. Instead, it will wait for the shader compilation to finish.

Camera

Option	Description
Move Sensitivity	Mouse sensitivity (moving camera).
Rotate Sensitivity	Mouse sensitivity (rotating camera).
Smoothing	The degree of the camera movement smoothing.

Snap

Option	Description
Offset by Normal	Global snap props.
Vertex Snap Distance
Edge Snap Distance

Capture

Option	Description
Screenshots
Forced Resolution	Used for taking screenshots.
Width
Height
Factor
HQ Screenshot Iterations
FPS
HDR
2D
Save as TGA
Disable Reflection Fade
Video
Forced Resolution	Used for recording video.
Width
Height
Factor
HQ Screenshot Iterations
FPS
HDR
2D
Save as TGA
Disable Reflection Fade

Debug

Option	Description
Foliage Push	Debug, uses the cursor to push foliage aside (as though a character is walking through).
Water Waves	Debug, uses the cursor to create ripples on water.

Devices

Option	Description
Used	When recalculating AO with the Radeon-Rays library, you can choose which GPU to use.

Debug Draw

Option	Description
Skeleton	Draws the selected entity's skeleton.
Bound Sphere	Draws the selected entity's debugging bound sphere.
Spatial Sphere	Draws the selected entity's debugging spatial sphere.
Collision Form	Draws the selected entity's debugging collision form.
Materials	Highlights different materials on the scene with different colors. Off Superstatic Only Entity Only All.
Materials Distance	Clip distance for the highlighted materials in the scene.
Name	Shows a name for the selected objects.
Name Distance	Clip distance for displaying names for the selected objects.
Debug Particles	Draws debug particles on the selected effect objects.
Lamp Source Size	Marks Lamp Objects with spheres the size of the light's emitter.
Scrs Simple View	Simplified view of the skeleton debug (to enable, write the console command scrs_debug1).
Mental State	Draws the mental state debug on the NPC.
Draw Entity Spheres	Marks every object with a red sphere.
Draw Entity Crosses	Marks every object with a small cross.
Cull Dist	Clip the entities' debug drawing by cull distance.
Outline	Draws the selected entities' outlines.
Player Collidable	Player's collision debug (phv_mc_collidable_flag console command).
Dist	Clip distance for the player's collision debug.

Entities

Option	Description
Autolink Patrol Points	Autolink patrol points on creation.
Duplicate Object Tolerance	Precision used for comparing objects' positions.

VS

Option	Description
"Script" Button Opens Selection	If disabled, the button Script will open the scripts window with previously opened tabs. If enabled, the scripts of the selected objects will also open.
Save/Load Opened Tabs	If enabled, this remembers the last open tabs in the VS Editor and opens them next time.
Ask Before Opening Multiple Scripts	If enabled, it will prompt you when you open multiple scripts at once.
Snap Blocks	Aligns blocks to the grid.
Force Full Caption	Disables view info clipping on the blocks.
Undo Block Movement	Creates undo items on block movement.
Show Debug Counters	Draws received/sent signals count on nodes' inputs/outputs.
Signal Delete Confirmation	Warns about removing signals from the VS.
"All Blocks" VS Refs (very slow)	If enabled, the All Blocks window blocks from the VS-refs will also be displayed. But don't forget that this can dramatically impact performance.
Simple Delay Info	The delay block uses a simplified time format.
Remove Selected Links	Always removes selected blocks (if the option is disabled, it only removes the selected blocks even if some links are selected).
Auto Preview Sound	Preview sound when selecting Action Play Sound in the vs diagram.
Hint	Shows a hint on vs blocks.
Hint Delay (ms)	Delay the hint on vs blocks (in milliseconds).
Subscripts In Nodes	Adds all blocks from subscripts into the blocks panel.
Signal references In Nodes	Adds all the signal references into the blocks panel.
Diagram Info	Additional info displayed on vs diagram (current subscript, etc.).
Debug AutoZoom	Every time the selected object is changed in the VS Diagram, this option will optimize the layout so that the nodes are centered on the screen.

Cover

Option	Description
Preview Draw	Preview the cover's debugging info.
Preview End Pose	Preview the end animation pose.
Preview Motion Delay	Delay for the preview animation.
Autolink Forward	Forward autolink cover when creating a new one.
Autolink Backward	Backward autolink cover when creating a new one.
Auto Xform	Calculates the final cover position from the selected animation.

Decals

Option	Description
Debug Draw	Decal exporter's debugs.
Realtime Refresh	Refreshes decal on every transform.
QSlim
Max Decimate Error	Special QSlim decimator params section (only for debugging purpose).
Boundary Weight
Compactness Ratio
Meshing Penalty
Placement Policy
Weighting Policy
Vertex Degree Limit
Local Validity Threshold
Meshing Angle Threshold

Navigation Options

Obstacles Snap H Range	PathEngine horizontal snap distance.
Obstacles Snap V Range	PathEngine vertical snap distance.
Render Inactive	Draws navigation even while not in the Navigation Mode.
Render PE	Draws the PathEngine geometry.
PE Agent Size	PathEngine Agent Size (for simulation).
PE Agent Speed	PathEngine Agent Speed (for simulation).

Mesh

		Visible	Draws geometry.
Select		Vertex	Enables Vertex selecting.
		Edge	Enables Edge selecting.
		Face	Enables Face selecting.
Snap		Vertex	Enables Snap to Vertex.
		Edge	Enables Snap to Edge.
		Tri	Enables Snap to Face.
		Object	Enables Snap to Object in the scene.
		Edge Distance	Edge snap distance.
		Vertex Distance	Vertex snap distance.
View		Top	Draws on top of the whole scene.
View		Nearer	Draws mesh with small bias.
Edit		Fan Create	Creates a new tri in the Fan mode.
		Drop Up Offset	Drop Up offset while in the drop down mode.
		Drop Down Distance	Drop down range.
		Nearest Z	Bias for nearer rendering.
Border		Draw	Draws a border on open edges.
Border		Height	Height of the border.
Generation		Edge Length	Max edge length for geometry generation.
Generation		Edge Ratio In Tri	Edge ratio for geometry generation.
Colors	Tri Selected		Color for the selected tri.
		RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.
		Override by Mtl	Override the selected color by the material color.
	Tri Locked		Color for the locked tri.
	Tri Locked	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.
	Vert Selected		Color for the selected vertex.
	Vert Selected	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.
	Vert Normal		Color for a normal vertex.
	Vert Normal	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.
	Vert Empty		Color for an unassigned vertex.
	Vert Empty	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.
	Vert L-Selected		Color for the last selected vertex.
	Vert L-Selected	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.
	Edge Selected		Color for the selected edge.
	Edge Selected	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.
	Edge Normal		Color for the normal edge.
	Edge Normal	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.
	Edge Open		Color for the open edge.
	Edge Open	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.
	Border		Color for the border.
	Border	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of the color.

Flares Options

Debug Draw	Draws a debug.
Overdraw	Draws flares with special debugging glowing shaders.
Overdraw Scale	Size scale for the special debugging glowing shaders.
Isolate Mode	Draws only the preview flare.
Edit Transform	Preview flare's xform.

Particles Options

	Auto Play	Plays particles upon selecting the object.
	Effect Auto Restart	Automatically restarts the effect when the properties have changed.
Control (the same options as in the Particles Mode)	Force Constrained	Renders particles with the Constrained mode.
	Ignore Rotation	Resets parent rotation for render particles.
	Global Restart	Restarts all particles in the loaded level.
	HUD Mode	Draws particles in the HUD Mode.
	PP Enabled	Enables Post Process in particles rendering.
	Isolate Mode	Turns off all other scene particles in the Particle Mode.
	System Only	Shows filtered effects in the Effects Tab used in the selected system only.
	Preview Modif	Applies the selected Modifier to the current System or Effect.
	Force End	Immediately stops particles by the end time (instead of stopping only the birth of new particles).
Parent Color		The parent color. When playing particles from an object or a script, we can force the particle color. This property is used to simulate that situation in the editor.
Parent Color	RGBA	Red/green/blue/alpha values of color.
Debug	Name	Shows particles name.
	AABB	Shows current AABB.
	Wireframe	Shows particles in the wire mode.
Overdraw	Enabled	Displays particles Overdraw.
Overdraw	Scale	Opacity of each particle in the Overdraw mode.

Model Options

Model Editor

HUD View	Switch to the HUD camera mode.
HUD View Locator	The HUD camera mod locator.

Timeline

Snap To Frame

The cursor in the motion preview's track bar will snap to integer values.

Preview

Texture Preset	Dynamic values that can change on a model during gameplay.
Sound Scheme
AUX Value
DAO Value
Show Fur Replacers	Shows fur replacer meshes.
Show Vertex Color	Shows the vertex's color.

Transform

Position	Preview values for the Model Editor.
Rotation
Scale

Debug

Common
Draw Debug	On/off debug rendering.
Draw Model	On/off model rendering.
Preview Part Selection	Debugs draw parts.
Show	Debugs draw bones or shells.
Skin
Draw Bones	Debugs draw bones.
Draw Phys Shells	Debugs draw shells.
Draw Phys Links	Debugs draw phys links.
Draw Phys Centers of Mass	Debugs draw Centers Of Mass.
Draw Phys Local Poses	Debugs draw Local Poses.
Draw Phys Global Poses	Debugs draw Global Poses.

AS

Snap Blocks	Snaps blocks to the grid.
Undo Block Movement	Undoes the previous block movement.
Route Transitions	Route transition arrows.
Grid Size	Diagram's grid size.
Undo Levels	Undo stack max size.

Eyes Delta

Left Eye Bone	Values used to generate eyes delta.
Right Eye Bone
Left Eye Locator
Right Eye Locator
Create Motion Subst
Base Delta Name

Menu options

Draw Control Frames	White frames around every menu control to show their sizes.
Icon View	Preview icons on their textures when ui_icon is selected.
Icon Grid	Icon grid, used to snap icons in iconlib.
Grid Size	Size for the Icon Grid.
Debug Input Type	Forces the input type to check the input-dependent controls' visibility.
Debug Platform Type	Forces the platform to check the platform-dependent controls' visibility.

Target Entity

Use Last Selected

Uses the last selected entity on the scene for the target entity.

RMB Utils

Reset to Default	Reset property to default.
Copy	Copy the value of the selected property.
Paste	Paste the copied value to the selected property.
Export Properties	Outdated.
Import Properties	Outdated.
Edit Hint	Edit hint for the selected property. Hints are stored here: *tools/editor/meta/props_metadata.lua*
Show Description	Display the description of the selected property on a separate panel.
Add to Highlight List	Add the selected property to the highlight list.
Show Highlighted Only	If enabled, will show only the highlighted properties.
Edit Custom Caption	Allows you to rename a property.
Clear Custom Caption	Resets the name of the property to default.
Disable Custom Captions	Disables the display of custom captions.
Show Advanced Filter	Enables the display of the advanced filter. This is space above the search bar that contains a list of all properties sorted into categories.

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Exodus SDK

Tool

Overview

Scene Options

Hint

Common

Auto Backup

Misc

Render

Utils

Camera

Snap

Capture

Debug

Devices

Debug Draw

Entities

VS

Cover

Decals

Navigation Options

Mesh

Flares Options

Particles Options

Model Options

Model Editor

Timeline

Preview

Transform

Debug

AS

Tags

Eyes Delta

Menu options

Target Entity

RMB Utils

EULA

Tool

Overview

Toolbar

Scene Options

Hint

Common

Auto Backup

Misc

Render

Utils

Camera

Snap

Capture

Debug

Devices

Debug Draw

Entities

VS

Cover

Decals

Navigation Options

Mesh

Flares Options

Particles Options

Model Options

Model Editor

Timeline

Preview

Transform

Debug

AS

Tags

Eyes Delta

Menu options

Target Entity

RMB Utils

EULA