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Status bar
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Add | Adds a new item to the list. |
| Clone | Clones the selected item. |
| Rename | Renames the selected item. |
| Delete | Removes the selected item from the list. |
| Save | Saves all unsaved changes. |
| Close | Closes the window. |
Common
Here you can choose the textures that will be used for wallmarks.
Items
Toolbar
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Back button | Undo selection. |
| Forward Button | Redo selection. |
| Find filter | This is where you type in what you're looking for. |
| Х button | Cancel typing. |
RMB Utils
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Expand | Expands the current list. |
| Collapse | Collapses the current list. |
| Expand All | Expands all the lists. |
| Collapse All | Collapses all the lists. |
| Filter | Shows/hides the filter toolbar. |
| Plain Mode | Shows all items in alphabetical order without hierarchy. |
Properties
| Option | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Texture #0,1,2,3 | Texture | The textures that will be used for wallmarks. |
| Frame Width | The width of the texture frame. | |
| Frame Height | The height of the texture frame. | |
Toolbar
| 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! |
 | Shows only the properties that were changed. |
RMB Utils
| Reset to Default | Resets the property to the default value. |
| Copy | Copies the value to the selected property. |
| Paste | Pastes the value of the selected property. |
| Export Properties | Outdated. |
| Import Properties | Outdated. |
| Edit Hint | Edits the hint for the selected property. Hints are stored here: tools/editor/meta/props_metadata.lua |
| Show Description | Displays the hint for the selected property on a separate panel. |
| Add to Highlight List | Add the selected property to the highlighted list. |
| Show Highlighted Only | If enabled, this will show only the highlighted properties. |
| Edit Custom Caption | Allows you to rename a property. |
| Clear Custom Caption | Resets the name of a property to default. |
| Disable Custom Captions | Disables the display of custom captions. |
| Show Advanced Filter | Enables the display of the advanced filter. This is where a list of all properties is sorted into categories. |
Materials
Common physics properties.
Properties
| Option | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | The material name. | |
| Vehicle Surface Type | Interaction types with vehicles:
| |
| Physic | Friction | The greater the Friction, the more resistance the object will experience while moving. |
| Damping | The greater the Damping, the higher the object's inertia. | |
| Spring | Deprecated. | |
| Collision | Damage Factor | Collision hit damage multiplier. |
| Visy | Transparency Factor | Deprecated. |
| Debug | Color | Color, which will be used in debug mode for painting materials. |
| RGBA | ||
Collide Pairs
Items
All items in Exodus SDK are divided into two categories: static and dynamic.
| Static | Dynamic |
|---|---|
| default | default_object |
| materials | creatures |
| levels | objects |
To customize the properties of the colliding pair:
Properties
| Option | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Particles | Add | Adds the new wallmark. | |
| Item 0 | Name | Allows choosing the necessary particle. | |
| Probability | The probability of the appearance of the particle from the whole list. | ||
| Constrained | Constrained = true means "local" (spawned particles will exist in local coordinates and follow the particle system, if it moves). Unconstrained particles will remain at the world coordinates and ignore the parent system's movement. For example, unconstrained particles would be smoke from a moving train. Constrained would be laser beam particles that follow the parent system as it moves. | ||
| Sound | Name | Playing sound during collision. | |
| Marks | Texture | Allows you to choose the texture, which you set in the 80150596 tab. | |
| Frames | Allows you to choose the necessary particles in the sprite sheet. | ||
| Size | The wallmark's size. | ||
| Flags | |||
Bullets
Items
Types of cartridge
| Item | |
|---|---|
| arrow | Arrows. |
| arrow_breakable | Explosive arrows. |
| brick | |
| bullet | For assault rifle. |
| bullet_ball | For Tikhar. |
| bullet_buckshot | For shotgun. |
| bullet_fire | Fire from Molotov cocktail. |
| bullet_flamethrower | Particles from flamethrower. |
| bullet_flamethrower_main | "Center" wallmark from the flamethrower. |
| bullet_medium | From revolver and Bastard. |
| bullet_medium_big | From Valve. |
| bullet_paint | Used in prefab with paint. |
| bullet_paint_main | Used in prefab with paint. |
| bullet_rifle_fire | |
| bullet_tihar_fire | Incendiary Tikhar bullets. |
| decoy | Tin can decoy. |
| default | Default. |
| dynamite | Dynamite. |
| dynamite_frag | Particles from dynamite. |
| electro_anomaly_frag | Particles from electro-anomaly. |
| empty | Deprecated. |
| knife | |
| macheta | Deprecated. |
| melee | |
| melee_free | |
| shell | Default spent shotgun shell casings. |
| shell_shotgun | Shell casings for shotgun. |
| shell_small | Shell casings for revolver and Bastard. |
| shell_sniper | Shell casings for Valve. |
| volt | Electric discharge. |
Properties
| Option | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Sound Type | How does AI react to this sound? | ||
| Ricochet Factor | The angle of possible ricochet. | ||
| Max Penetration Depth | The maximum size (in meters) of penetration of this material. | ||
| Back Effect | Particles | Additional particle that will appear behind the bullet. | |
| Sound | Name | Additional sound for the "back" particle. | |
| Back Mark | Marks | Texture | Additional properties for the "back" particle. |
| Frames | |||
| Size | |||
| Flags | |||
Steps
Properties
| Option | Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Pitch Min | The minimum volume of steps. | ||
| Pitch Max | The maximum volume of steps. | |||
| Footmarks | Texture | |||
| Frames | ||||
| Size | ||||
| Flags | ||||
Walk, Run, Sprint, Crouch, Jump, Landing, Crouch Landing, Step Sliding | Particles | Item 0, 1, 2... | Name | Allows you to choose the necessary particle. |
| Probability | ||||
| Constrained | ||||
| Sound | Name | |||
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