Viewport

Overview

The viewport displays the effect and various statistics in the HUD.

Interface

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  1. Capture thumbnail

  2. Capture short thumbnail video

  3. Save current view as default effect view (Ctrl+E to reset view to default effect view)

  4. Set the camera position to fit the entire effect in the view

  5. Reset effect

  6. Stop effect

  7. Play / Pause effect

  8. Simulation speed factor

  9. Framerate limiter

  10. LOD modifier

  11. Enable/Disable editor "loop" mode (only a preview helper)

  12. When loop is enabled, delay until next instantiation of the effect

  13. 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.

  14. Enable/Disable effect’s viewport debug drawing (debug.drawXXX from the effect’s nodegraph)

  15. Enable/Disable renderers highlighting when selecting nodes

  16. Enable/Disable 3d-curve rendering helper (with editable control-ponts)

  17. Enable/Disable spatial-layers grid rendering helper

  18. Shape debug display mode

  19. Enable/Disable shape debug display

  20. 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

  21. Gizmo transform mode: World / Local

  22. Rendering modes (shaded particles, wireframe particles, solid-color particles, overdraw)

  23. Simulation bounding-box display mode

  24. Show effect editor preferences

  25. Simulation statistics

  26. Reset camera position and orientation (main camera, camera 2, camera 3)

  27. Show/Edit the current camera position X, Y, Z

  28. Show/Edit the current camera orientation X, Y, Z

  29. Show/Edit the current camera FOV in degrees (put zero to have orthographic projection)

  30. Save camera position and orientation (main camera, camera 2, camera 3)

Key Bindings (defaults)

Key

Description

Right-click

Look around

Middle-click

Pan view

Alt+Right-click

Dolly view

Alt+Left-click

Orbit view

Alt+Left&Right-click

Pan view

Left-click

Select particles

F3 / Shift+F3

Cycle render modes

Ctrl+R

Reset effect

…​

Stop effect

Q

Gizmo mode: none

W

Gizmo mode: translate

E

Gizmo mode: rotate

R

Gizmo mode: scale

T

Toggle gizmo between worlspace and localspace

V

[DEV] Show profiler

B

[DEV] Pause profiler

J / L

[DEV] Pan profiler right / left

I / K

[DEV] Zoom profiler in / out

Y / H

[DEV] Pan profiler up / down

U / O

[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.