Level Editor/Panels/Snapping: Difference between revisions

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{{Property row|name=Smart Grid on Faces|type=Check box|default=On|desc=A shape drawn on a slanted face snaps to a grid of the face's own, along its edges, and stands square to it.}}

{{Property row|name=Snap to Visible Geometry|type=Check box|default=On|desc=A placed point snaps onto the corners, edge midpoints and edges of the brushes you can see, before the grid.}}

{{Property row|name=Grid Unit (m)|type=~~Metres~~, 0.0625 to 16|default=1|desc=The grid step at scale 0, the starting point the slider halves or doubles.}}

{{Property row|name=Grid Unit (m)|type=Meters, 0.0625 to 16|default=1|desc=The grid step at scale 0, the starting point the slider halves or doubles.}}

{{Property row|name=Grid step slider|type=-6 to +4|default=0|desc=Halves or doubles the grid step, one power of two per notch. The label above it shows the result (''Grid step: 1 m''). {{Key|[}} and {{Key|]}} do the same anywhere, as do '''Edit > Smaller Grid''' and '''Larger Grid'''.}}

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== Smart guides ==

Smart guides work like the guides in Canva or Google Drawings. While you draw a box, move or resize something (in a 3D or 2D view), drag a vertex or place the ends of a clip line, the editor looks along each axis for the spot you most likely mean, within a few pixels of the cursor, snaps there and draws why in red:

* '''Lined up''': a side or the ~~centre~~ of what you drag lines up with a side or the ~~centre~~ of something else, or with a vertex. A red line runs through both.

* '''Lined up''': a side or the center of what you drag lines up with a side or the center of something else, or with a vertex. A red line runs through both.

* '''~~Centred~~''': the margins on either side are equal, so what you drag sits in the middle of the face you draw on, or halfway between two ~~neighbours~~. Two red dimension lines show the equal margins, in ~~metres~~ and in grid steps ("1.5 m (3)").

* '''Centerd''': the margins on either side are equal, so what you drag sits in the middle of the face you draw on, or halfway between two neighbors. Two red dimension lines show the equal margins, in meters and in grid steps ("1.5 m (3)").

* '''Equal spacing''': the gap to a ~~neighbour~~ equals the gap between that ~~neighbour~~ and the next, so a third pillar lands as far from the second as the second is from the first.

* '''Equal spacing''': the gap to a neighbor equals the gap between that neighbor and the next, so a third pillar lands as far from the second as the second is from the first.

* '''Equal size''': a box you draw or resize comes out the same size as a ~~neighbour~~.

* '''Equal size''': a box you draw or resize comes out the same size as a neighbor.

A guide wins over the grid when it fires; along an axis where nothing fires, the grid snaps as usual. When two guides are equally close, equal spacing wins.

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 {{Property row|name=Smart Grid on Faces|type=Check box|default=On|desc=A shape drawn on a slanted face snaps to a grid of the face's own, along its edges, and stands square to it.}}
 {{Property row|name=Snap to Visible Geometry|type=Check box|default=On|desc=A placed point snaps onto the corners, edge midpoints and edges of the brushes you can see, before the grid.}}
-{{Property row|name=Grid Unit (m)|type=Metres, 0.0625 to 16|default=1|desc=The grid step at scale 0, the starting point the slider halves or doubles.}}
+{{Property row|name=Grid Unit (m)|type=Meters, 0.0625 to 16|default=1|desc=The grid step at scale 0, the starting point the slider halves or doubles.}}
 {{Property row|name=Grid step slider|type=-6 to +4|default=0|desc=Halves or doubles the grid step, one power of two per notch. The label above it shows the result (''Grid step: 1 m''). {{Key|[}} and {{Key|]}} do the same anywhere, as do '''Edit > Smaller Grid''' and '''Larger Grid'''.}}
 {{Property table end}}
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 == Smart guides ==
 Smart guides work like the guides in Canva or Google Drawings. While you draw a box, move or resize something (in a 3D or 2D view), drag a vertex or place the ends of a clip line, the editor looks along each axis for the spot you most likely mean, within a few pixels of the cursor, snaps there and draws why in red:
-* '''Lined up''': a side or the centre of what you drag lines up with a side or the centre of something else, or with a vertex. A red line runs through both.
+* '''Lined up''': a side or the center of what you drag lines up with a side or the center of something else, or with a vertex. A red line runs through both.
-* '''Centred''': the margins on either side are equal, so what you drag sits in the middle of the face you draw on, or halfway between two neighbours. Two red dimension lines show the equal margins, in metres and in grid steps ("1.5 m (3)").
+* '''Centerd''': the margins on either side are equal, so what you drag sits in the middle of the face you draw on, or halfway between two neighbors. Two red dimension lines show the equal margins, in meters and in grid steps ("1.5 m (3)").
-* '''Equal spacing''': the gap to a neighbour equals the gap between that neighbour and the next, so a third pillar lands as far from the second as the second is from the first.
+* '''Equal spacing''': the gap to a neighbor equals the gap between that neighbor and the next, so a third pillar lands as far from the second as the second is from the first.
-* '''Equal size''': a box you draw or resize comes out the same size as a neighbour.
+* '''Equal size''': a box you draw or resize comes out the same size as a neighbor.
 A guide wins over the grid when it fires; along an axis where nothing fires, the grid snaps as usual. When two guides are equally close, equal spacing wins.