LD Assistant demo documentation

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Overview

MAKE YOUR LEVEL DESIGN FASTER AND EASIER!
The LD Assistant plug-in adds two new essential windows to your editor.
Features:

Live preview of all your actions
Works with any type of actors or blueprints
All actions are registered in the UE undo history
Editor only assets (no impact on your game performances)
Bulk duplicate the selected actors with an offset
Create a grid with the selected actors
Duplicate the selected actors along a spline
Place selected actor around another
Set the focus of selected actors on another actor
Align selected actors (X,Y,Z)
Add local rotations to the selected actors
Add random rotations to the selected actors
Auto-organize your World outliner
Bulk rename actors
Measure the distance between two actors
Add and edit notes in your level

Important/Additional Notes: All the assets shown in this video are only examples, they are not supplied with the plugin. I recommend disabling the plugin before building the game, for compatibility reasons.

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Launch the LD Assistant

Note: You MUST set the grid size to 10 for the plugin to work properly

Duplication tab

The “selection” dropdown allows to set the selection behavior after the action :

Select the new meshes
Loop: Do the sequences have to loop from start?
Select both

DUPLICATOR:

Select the actor(s) you would like to duplicate
Enable the preview
Set the offset
Set the quantity
Click on the “Duplicate” button

GRID CREATOR:

Select the actor(s) you would like to duplicate
Enable the preview
Set the offset
Set the quantity
Click on the “Create grid” button

DUPLICATE ALONG SPLINE:

Select the actor(s) you would like to duplicate
Click on “Create spline”
Enable the preview
Customize the spline
Set the quantity
Set the update rotation boolean (the mesh will follow the spline rotation)
Click on the “Duplicate” button, the spline will be destroyed.

Move Actor Tab

REFERENCE ACTOR: Pick an actor, if multiple actors are selected, the first actor selected will be set as the reference
PLACE AROUND:

Select the actor(s) you want to be around the reference actor
Set the radius
Click on the “Place around [Name]” button

SET FOCUS:

Select the actor(s) you want to look at the reference actor
Set the update booleans
Click on the “Look at [Name]” button

Tools tab

OUTLINER ORGANIZER:
By clicking on the button "Organizer" all the actors of the level will be automatically arranged in folders.
If some blueprints are outside the folders, simply add the prefix "BP_" and click on the button again.

RENAME ASSETS:

Select the actors you want to rename
Fill the fields
Set the “Increment” boolean (a number will be added after the name)
Click on the “Rename” button

MEASURE:
Measure the distance between the last two selected actors.

STATISTICS:
Count the static meshes and the lights.

Notes Tab

ADD A NEW NOTE:

Pick an actor, if multiple actors are selected, the first actor selected will be set as the reference
Click on the “Add new note to this actor” button
A BP_Note will be created as a child of the selected actor
Fill the fields
Set the size of the note
Click on the “Update note” button

EDIT THE TARGET OF THE NOTE:

Select the note in the viewport
Click on the “Update target actor” button
Select the new target actor in the viewport
Click on the “Set as target actor” button

Because the note is a child of an object if you change the scale or the rotation of the target the note can have weird behavior. If so, click on the “Refresh all notes” button.
Please do not edit a note outside of the LD Assistant plugin (in the BP detail window for example).

Align Tool

The align tool allows aligning the actor's pivot on X, Y or Z.The location will be defined with the average location of the selected array.

Distribute Tool

The distribute tool allows distributing uniformly the actor's pivot on X, Y, Z or XYZ.The selected actors will be distributed between the first and the last selected actors.

Rotation Tool

The rotation tool allows rotating actors locally with the defined amount.The random rotation will add random rotation depending on the X, Y, Z boolean values.

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