Features which make Leadwerks unique

[Michael Betke]

Some features are nice to be adapted from other engines like autosave or undo.

 

This two features would make LE a bit more unique and standing apart of other engines on the market:

 

Isolate Mode:

A simple mode to isolate the area where you work on at the moment.

Drag a rectangle to select the "zone" and just press isolate.

Now all non-selected entities are culled but lighting will always stay and terrain too.

Pressing Isolate again will make all stuff visible again.

Benefits are viewport speed, tidy view of the working zone which results in a better editor experience.

 

Vegetation Color Variation (VCV):

An additional low-res color texture which gives color variation to leaves.

For example: You have a forest which consists of two or three models or even one model if the forest is supposed to be a "area filler" only.

With VCV you load a low-res color texture for the specific vegetation model. This color texture will blend on the existing leaf texture and gives it color variation.

Benefits are less needed vegetation models to break up a generic look of distant forests which results in more speed and realistic look.

Seen there after I had the idea and searched a bit for it: http://www.burnstudio.co.za/blog/texturing-1000-trees-with-one-texture/

[L B]

+1 for VCV, maybe for Isolation as well, but I don't need it ATM.

[Michael Betke]

Isolate is more a feature for level designers and production enhancement.

Most editors come up wtih filtering stuff but you still have to tick checkboxes here and there. isolate would be very fast. I love it in 3dmax to work on special areas of my model as it gets more complex.