Source Shader Editor - Controls
Use F3 to toggle visibility on the editor root panel, F1 will toggle the size between half- and fullscreen and F2 allows you to change whether the input is directed towards the editor or the game in halfscreen mode.
Tabs
- Hold down ⇧ Shift or Ctrl while creating a new graph through the 'New' dialog to open it in a new tab.
- Hold down ⇧ Shift or Ctrl while loading a file to open it in a new tab.
- Hold down ⇧ Shift or Ctrl while using the tab '+' to create a new post processing graph in the new tab.
- Double click with left mouse button on the tab bar to open a new tab.
View controls
- Click and drag with the right mouse button to pan the view.
- scroll mouse wheel to change the zoom level.
- Use the button View reset (bottom left corner) to center the view on all nodes.
Use the right mouse button somewhere on the canvas to open the context menu.
- Spawn a new node by selecting the desired operation in the New node submenu.
- Copy, cut and delete will perform the respective operation on all currently selected nodes.
- Paste will duplicate any copied nodes at the cursor position.
- Disconnect will remove all bridges from the currently selected nodes.
- Properties will open a node-specific options dialog.
Node interaction
- Select a node with the left mouse button.
- Click and drag with the left mouse button over the canvas to select nodes with a selection box.
- When selecting nodes, use ⇧ Shift to add nodes to the current selection or Ctrl to toggle the selection status on the respective nodes.
- Press Del to delete all selected nodes.
- Click and drag with the left mouse button on a node to drag the current selection. When pointing on the boundaries of a container node, this operation will allow you to change the size of the container.
- Doubleclick a node with the left mouse button to open its properties dialog.
- Click and drag with the left mouse button on a jack to create a new bridge. Let go of the button while pointing on the destination jack to finalize the operation.
- Use the right mouse button on a jack to destroy all of its bridges.
Preview controls
- Click and drag with the left mouse button to rotate the view.
- Click and drag with the middle mouse button to pan the view.
- scroll mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
- Click and drag with the right mouse button to rotate the light around the view axes. Note:only visible if the shader supports lighting!
Code editor
- Ctrl + A to select everything.
- Ctrl + C to copy code (copies a CR/LF compatible string to your clipboard).
- Ctrl + V to paste code.
- Ctrl + X to cut code. You can cut a whole line & following linefeed if you use this without having text selected.
- ⇧ Shift + ← or → or ↑ or ↓ to select code with the keyboard.
- Ctrl + ← or → to move the cursor by the next word.
- Home or End to jump to the beginning or end of the current line respectively.
- Ctrl + Home or End to jump to the beginning or end of the whole text respectively.
- Ctrl + scroll mouse wheel or + or - or 0 to change the text size.
- Ctrl + Z to undo the prior change.
- Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + Z to redo the prior change.
- Ctrl + Space to open the autocomplete dialog.
- left mouse button on a selected entry in the autocomplete dialog or ↵ Enter to apply the selected string to your code.