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Mastering CryENGINE

By : Michelle Martin
Book Image

Mastering CryENGINE

By: Michelle Martin

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering CryENGINE
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Let's take a shortcut


Before we look at some more advanced flow graph setups, let's look at the keyboard shortcuts for the flow graph. Like many other tools in Sandbox, the flow graph is rather complex and has a lot of features. Although most of those features can simply be accessed using the mouse, it is, of course, much more efficient to use keyboard shortcuts wherever they are available.

It is pretty much like playing a strategy game, for example, StarCraft. You can completely play it by just using your mouse, but you will be much faster when you take the time to learn the important shortcuts.

Let's look at the most useful flow graph shortcuts.

Q – node quick search

This one can almost be considered a hidden feature since it is so easy to miss. The node quick search shortcut (the Q key by default) is very useful when you are trying to find a node. Generally, there are two ways to add new component nodes to your flow graph. You can either use the Add Node functionality in the context menu...