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Visual3D Game Engine Wiki

Getting Started (User Manuals & Tutorials)

The below user manuals help you get started using Visual3D's All-in-One Development Tool to build your own game or virtual world, by including (and linking you to) the most relevent video tutorials and further documentation.

World Building & Terrain Editor

User Manual for Terrain Editor (Importing, Sculpting, Painting), Ocean/Water, Vegetation, and Procedural World Creation.

Scene Design

User Manual for Scene/Level/Environment Design, Mission/Scenario Editing, Object Placement, Prefabs, Entity Types, Environment Setup (Lighting, Sun, Weather, Day-Night Cycle, Sky/Clouds, Fog), Real-time (Live) & Collaborative Editing, and general toolset usage.

Asset Creation

User Manual for Modeling, Animation, Live Importing, Asset Management, and Visual3D's all-in-one Entity Editor for Model, Material (Shaders), Animation, Moint Point (Attachments / Bone Tracking), Physics (Collision), Particle (Visual FX) editing and setup.

Entity Creation

This new user manual covers creation of entities (objects, avatars) and assets (prefabs) in the Visual3D toolset, including setup of new entity type presets, placement of models into the scene, and creation of prefab assets.

Scripting & Gameplay

User Manual for Programming (C#, Python, VB, JavaScript) with Visual Studio & Visual3D Code Editor, Real-time Mission Editing (Cinematics, Paths/Navigation, Trigger Areas, Character Dialogs/Conversations, Behavior Tree Editor, Smart Objects, Area States, Event-based Effect (FX) Sequencing, and Actor Setup.

Programming Manual

This relatively new User Manual defining how to define new types of components which can be used by mission/level designers to setup entities, scripting and gameplay, entirely through the toolset, without coding, which is one of the major features of the upcoming v0.9.7 release.
Topics covered include how to define new types of Entities (eg. Character, Vehicle, Weapon, Equippable Items, etc.), Actions (such as PlayCinematic, PlaySound, or CreateEntity), Behaviors (eg. Talk, Move, Attack, or Animate), Events (eg. EntityDied or EntityKeyEvent), and Abilities (eg. Inventory, Speaker, Mobile, Combatant), as well as how these components are hooked up, configured and triggered (eg. through Triggers, Behavior Trees, and Key Mappings) through the toolset.

GUI & UI Editor

This user manua covers use of the built-in UI Editor for designing and scripting/programming the graphical user interface (GUI), including HUD (Overlay elements), Forms (Windows/Panels/Dialogs), Menu Screens, and in-game interactive screen/monitor objects. (Due to recent improvements with UI Editor, much of this documentation needs updating or will soon be written). This user manual is somewhat oudated and still being written, as it mostly covers how code-based UI creation, and not yet much of the UI Editor visual form/window/UI building yet, which has been further tested and enhanced for upcoming Visual3D v0.9.7.

Reference Documentation

FAQs

Keyboard & Mouse Reference

API Reference