Viewport
Interface

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Capture thumbnail
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Capture short thumbnail video
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Save current view as default effect view (
Ctrl+Eto reset view to default effect view) -
Set the camera position to fit the entire effect in the view
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Reset effect
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Stop effect
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Play / Pause effect
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Simulation speed factor
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Framerate limiter
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LOD modifier
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Enable/Disable editor "loop" mode (only a preview helper)
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When loop is enabled, delay until next instantiation of the effect
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Nodegraph compilation mode. “Shipping” has extra optimizations done when baking assets for the runtime, causes some editor features to not be available, such as debugging.
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Enable/Disable effect’s viewport debug drawing (debug.drawXXX from the effect’s nodegraph)
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Enable/Disable renderers highlighting when selecting nodes
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Enable/Disable 3d-curve rendering helper (with editable control-ponts)
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Enable/Disable spatial-layers grid rendering helper
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Shape debug display mode
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Enable/Disable shape debug display
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Gizmo mode. Gizmo is currently active only when selecting the “Root” element of the layers treeview, to move the effect instance around. Shortcuts are
Q,W,E,R -
Gizmo transform mode: World / Local
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Rendering modes (shaded particles, wireframe particles, solid-color particles, overdraw)
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Simulation bounding-box display mode
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Show effect editor preferences
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Simulation statistics
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Reset camera position and orientation (main camera, camera 2, camera 3)
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Show/Edit the current camera position X, Y, Z
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Show/Edit the current camera orientation X, Y, Z
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Show/Edit the current camera FOV in degrees (put zero to have orthographic projection)
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Save camera position and orientation (main camera, camera 2, camera 3)
Key Bindings (defaults)
Key |
Description |
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Look around |
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Pan view |
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Dolly view |
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Orbit view |
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Pan view |
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Select particles |
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Cycle render modes |
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Reset effect |
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Stop effect |
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Gizmo mode: none |
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Gizmo mode: translate |
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Gizmo mode: rotate |
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Gizmo mode: scale |
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Toggle gizmo between worlspace and localspace |
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[DEV] Show profiler |
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[DEV] Pause profiler |
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[DEV] Pan profiler right / left |
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[DEV] Zoom profiler in / out |
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[DEV] Pan profiler up / down |
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[DEV] Profiler history prev / next frame |
NOTE: You can hold a shortcut button in the viewport to display all associated commands.
Eco Mode
Since 2.24, The toolbar contains a leaf icon that toggles Eco Mode — a framerate cap that reduces CPU and GPU usage when you do not need full-speed preview.
See Eco Mode for details and configuration.