Tools Panel

This panel contains miscellaneous settings and helper tools and can be invoked by choosing Window -> Tools on the Menu bar (or by pressing T). The panel has a set of tabs given below.

Tools editor settings

Tools window

The tab provides options that enable/disable display of additional information.

System mouse	Show system mouse cursor. If the mouse is processed as GUI element, it will be FPS dependent.
New node reparenting	Create a new node as a child of the currently selected node.
Node clone confirmation	If checked, the confirmation dialog is hidden when cloning a node. If unchecked, the confirmation dialog is shown.
Node materials	If checked, references to material libraries will be saved into a .node files. If unchecked, references to material libraries will be saved directly into a .world file.
Game camera	If checked, positions of the camera in the editor mode and in the game are synchronized. This mode allows to conveniently switch between the editor and the in-game mode, because when the editor is unloaded, you will be in the same point. If unchecked, camera in the editor and in the game are independent. This mode is for editing camera positions when creating cutscenes in the Tracker.
Always update	Update Unigine application window even when it is not in focus.
New node naming	Generate a name for a new node. When the new node is added, automatically assign the file name as the node name (for example, when my_mesh.mesh is added, a node will have a name my_mesh_0). This option is available for meshes, skinned meshes, reference nodes and layer nodes.
Keep backups	Save backups when reference nodes are edited. This option allows for safe editing of reference nodes (even if the crash occurs, their data will not be lost).
Selection	For most of numerical parameters, automatically select parameter value after it has been entered (instead of selecting it manually in order to change it). This option allows for quick resetting of values until the right one is found.
Rotation order	Controls which axis goes first when a node is rotated. The default value is XYZ.
Handle size	The size of the object handler.

The tab contains settings for the embedded flash light. Please note, that enabling this option will create an additional light source.

Enabled	Enabling the flash-light attached to the camera. It can be used when there is no lighting in the world or it is disabled. The default hotkey is l.
Color	The color of the flash-light.
Intensity	The intensity of the flash-light.
Attenuation	The attenuation factor for flash-light beam.
Radius	Radius of the flash-light beam.
Field of view	Flash-light field of view.

The tab allows grabbing of the rendered image into a 2D texture, cube map, light map or impostor.

Mode	2D Cube Impostor
Field of view	Grabber field of view.
Near clipping	Distance to near clipping plane for image grabbing.
Far clipping	Distance to far clipping plane for image grabbing.
HDR	Grab 2D texture or Cube map in HDR.
Mipmaps	Create mipmaps for the grabbed image.
Compress	Compress the image.
Normals	Create normals
Noise	Alpha channel noise, which is used for smoother switching between two impostors.
Image size	The size of the grabbed image.
Supersampling	The grabbed image is rendered in higher resolution (N times bigger) and than down-sampled to the specified size. The higher the value, the more reduced aliasing is, but the longer the grabbing takes.
Extrude	The image extrusion factor.
Blur	Blur the grabbed image with specified factor. the higher the value, the more blurred the result is.
Phi	Horizontal subdivision.
Theta	Vertical subdivision.
Grab	Grab 2D texture, cube map, light map or impostor.
Aspect	Aspect ratio (width/height) of the image.
Border	Automatic border adjustment.

This tab contains the LUT texture configuration tool. See details here.

The tab contains options that enable/disable visualization of different world elements and other helper objects.

Render mipmaps	Show calculated mipmap levels for textures. The original texture is rendered in red color; green, blue, yellow etc. are used to render the next following texture mipmap levels. The default hotkey is 3. Notice This option shows only the possible mipmap levels calculated by the engine based on assigned texture coordinates and distance to the camera. If a DDS image does not contain mipmaps, they will not be used.
Render triangles	Enable rendering triangles.
Render scissors	Enable rendering scissoring planes.
Render occluder	Enable rendering an occluder buffer onto the screen.
Render lights	Enable rendering lights.
Render normals	Enable rendering in normal map mode (when enabled, diffuse textures are switched off). The default hotkey is 4.
Render decals	Enable rendering decals.
Render textures	Enable rendering textures.
Render queries	Enable rendering occlusion queries.
Render splits	Enable rendering shadow splits for world lights.
Render penumbra	Enable rendering penumbra.
Render occlusion	Enable rendering occlusion.

This tab contains options for batch node processing.

Hierarchical	Apply to all children.
Light mask	A light mask to be applied to the selected object surfaces.
Decal mask	A decal mask to be applied to the selected object surfaces.
Viewport mask	A viewport mask to be applied to the selected object surfaces.
Intersection mask	An intersection mask to be applied to the selected object surfaces.
Collision mask	A collision mask to be applied to the selected object surfaces.
Grab LightProb	Grab the selected prob lights.
Generate decals	Generate the selected decals.
Frames	Number of frames.
Run samples	Run all scenes from the data/samples directory.

In This Article:

Common

Flash-light

Grabber

LUT

Show

Batch