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| 7s | Hello. |
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| 8s | Welcome to the Age of Empires IV guide |
| 10s | for the content editor interface. Here we'll be going over the various panels |
| 15s | in the edit interface and generally what they do. |
| 19s | First of all, across the top you'll find the main menu. |
| 23s | Now, main menu does mostly what you'd expect a menu |
| 26s | to do with a couple things you should know. |
| 29s | Under the View tab, you're going to find a list |
| 32s | of various panels that you can open. |
| 35s | This is useful if you close something by accident and you need to get it back. |
| 40s | Under Scenario Tab, you're going to find a list of tools |
| 44s | that you can access as well as the display features. |
| 48s | If you see something displaying that you don't think you need, |
| 52s | or if something you think should be displaying that isn't displaying, |
| 56s | it's very likely it's located here. |
| 61s | The main |
| 62s | viewport is located in the center of your screen. |
| 66s | This is where you'll be doing most of your work, and this is |
| 68s | the representation of what your game world looks like for your player. |
| 74s | It works almost exactly like the in-game |
| 77s | view, except that your camera is more powerful |
| 80s | you can zoom in, you can zoom out, and you have full rotational control |
| 84s | under any axis. |
| 88s | The Asset Explorer is located in the far left, |
| 92s | and this contains every file |
| 95s | that is created by your map. |
| 98s | This includes .scenario file which is useful for reloading your map |
| 102s | if it's ever unloaded as well as, say, your minimap. |
| 106s | Many of the assets here can be dragged and dropped |
| 109s | onto your render view to view what they contain. |
| 112s | For instance, if you take a mini map and drag it over, |
| 116s | it's going to load what our |
| 117s | mini map looks like. |
| 120s | Okay. |
| 121s | The scenario tree is located to your immediate left of your render view, |
| 126s | and this contains all the assets that are currently in your level, |
| 131s | from terrain to grass to water, everything. |
| 136s | You can click on one of these assets |
| 139s | to change the tool in the top right hand corner to whatever you clicked on. |
| 144s | This is an easy way to add more of something you've already added to |
| 148s | your map. |
| 150s | In the bottom, you have your object browser. |
| 153s | The object browser contains all the assets and objects |
| 157s | you can possibly import to your level. |
| 162s | You can navigate these objects by using |
| 166s | the main icons as well as using the file structure |
| 171s | to find out looking for. As well as the search field. |
| 175s | If you know what you're looking for, for instance, |
| 178s | you can search for chicken and click this. |
| 181s | Most of the elements here can be dragged and dropped onto your map |
| 185s | to get them to spawn or drag and drop onto the .scenario |
| 190s | to see if they exist in the scenario tree. |
| 194s | For instance, to find a chicken and drag them on the map. |
| 197s | And now we have a chicken |
| 201s | okay. |
| 202s | The Properties panel is located in the top right hand corner, and this displays |
| 207s | all the aspects of |
| 209s | whatever you are you're currently selected. |
| 213s | The information here will change depending on what you have selected. |
| 216s | So if you select our chicken, |
| 217s | it's going to show us all the information on our chicken where he is in the world. |
| 221s | And there's other things. |
| 223s | This will change if you select a wagon or a rock or a bush, doesn't matter. |
| 231s | Underneath this is the |
| 235s | transformation panel. |
| 237s | The Transformation Panel contains a bunch of controls |
| 239s | that allow you to manipulate objects and elements. |
| 243s | For instance, you can move things around, |
| 245s | you can rotate them, |
| 248s | and you can resize them |
| 252s | and various other controls. |
| 257s | Okay. |
| 258s | Finally, you have the playback controls, though. |
| 263s | Playback is essentially it allows you to view |
| 268s | the map as the player and view it with animated assets. |
| 272s | You can see the smoke and water flowing. |
| 274s | You can see breeze blowing |
| 277s | This just shows you what your maps and look like live in the game. |
| 282s | Now, is does use system resources |
| 284s | so you can play with it turned off |
| 288s | which will save your graphics processor some use. |
| 294s | But it's entirely up to you. |
| 296s | Once your system can handle if you like working |
| 299s | seeing how everything is going to be or in a frozen in time world. |
| 304s | Okay well that's it. |
| 306s | Thank you for watching and happy modding. |