panda3d-editor

A simple, lightweight editor for the Panda3D engine.

Features include:

• Ability to add lights and models to a scene
• Gizmos to allow easy transformation of nodes
• Ability to edit node properties
• Node duplication
• Undo / redo
• Project management, including ablity to build a project to a p3d multifile
• Save / restore scene in xml format
• Support for user created plugins

Installation

Once you have wxPython installed you should be able to start the editor from panda3d-editor\src\main.py. No additional python path modification is necessary. If you are trying to run your project main.py without building to p3d, you will need the following directories to be found on PYTHONPATH:

• src\p3d
• src\pandaEditor\game

Requires

• Panda3D
• wxPython

Usage

To give the editor a spin, try the following:

• Create a new project (File -> Project -> New)
• Import .egg or .bam files to your project (File -> Import...)
• Middle mouse drag them into the scene from the resource panel under models/
• Translate, rotate and scale them as your desire
• Set up some lights (Create -> Lights)
• Save the scene as test.xml (File -> Save)
• Build your project (File -> Build) You should now have a p3d file which runs your scene.

Keys

• 4 - Wireframe view
• 5 - Shaded view
• 6 - Textured view
• Q - Select
• W - Translate
• E - Rotate
• R - Scale
• Z - Undo
• Shift-Z - Redo
• F - Frame selection
• Backspace - Delete
• Ctrl-D - Duplicate
• Arrow up - Select parent
• Arrow down - Select child
• Arrow left - Select previous child
• Arrow right - Select next child
• Mouse left - Pointing and selecting
• Middle mouse - Your "doing" button. Use then to reparent nodes in the scene graph, or drag-drop models into the scene.