Sidebar

Description

The Sidebar is a panel which shows and allows you to edit properties of the selected root and local template(s).

To use the Sidebar:

1. Select a template, either a local template in your level or a root template in the Root Template Panel
2. Open the Sidebar (View > Sidebar in the menu or Ctrl+B)

Components

_{The Sidebar with each component numbered}

The Sidebar consists of the following components:

1. Options
2. Property Grid
3. Description

Options

_{The Sidebar options menu}

The options menu has the following buttons:

• Categorized

  Shows the properties of the selected template in their respective categories

• Alphabetical

  Shows all properties in an alphabetically sorted list

• Lock
• Check out

  Moves the selected inherited template to your mod

• Auto load multiselect

  Toggle to automatically show the property grid when multiple templates are selected

Property Grid

_{This article refers to the image linked under Components}

The property grid shows all properties of the selected template and allows you to edit them.

To edit a property, click the value column of the property (the rightmost cell). Property editors can have text inputs, numerical inputs, toggles, dropdowns or custom editors. If a property has a custom editor, a button will show up on the right side of the value column ([..], see image below). Click this to open up the custom editor.

_{An item template property with a custom editor}

When showing multiple selected templates, the value field will be empty if not all templates have the same value for this property.

Properties with a green background (see the image under Context Menu) are local template properties that differ from their root template. To reset a property back to its original value, right click the property and click "Reset".

Context Menu

_{The context menu when right clicking a property on the side bar panel}

The Sidebar context menu has several options to make it easier to maintain properties across templates. From top to bottom, the context menu (see image) has the following options:

• Reset

  Resets the property back to its original value (restores a lcoal template's property value back to the root template's property value)

• Reset All...

  Resets all properties back to their original value

• Select all entities with this property
• Copy display string to clipboard

  Copies the displayed value to your clipboard (Ctrl+V to paste)

• Copy string value to clipboard

  Copies the actual string value to your clipboard

• Copy property data

  Copies the data of the selected property to your clipboard. This is useful for copying nonstandard properties, such as lists. Many properties with a custom editor can only be copy-pasted using this option.

• Paste property data

  Pastes the property data copied by "Copy property data". This option is only available if data assignable to that property is copied to the clipboard.