Mine View

Mine View & Controls

The mine view is the most important view in DLE and shows you the current mine as it is. Mastering its use can considerably help with level design and make it easier.

Navigation

The camera in the mine view can be moved around in several ways:

• quick navigation with the mouse
• camera panning, zooming and rotation controls in the toolbar
• camera panning, zooming and rotation controls in the View menu

This page will focus on quick navigation. To move the camera around, hold Ctrl and move the mouse around. Holding Shift with Ctrl will allow you to rotate the camera around the current center point. Zooming is possible in three ways:

• with the mouse wheel (without Ctrl held)
• by holding Ctrl and the right mouse button, and then moving the mouse up or down
• holding Ctrl and then left-clicking to zoom in or right-clicking or zoom out

Note that panning forward/back (or in/out) is different from zooming in that only the latter will change the center of camera rotation. To pan in/out, hold Ctrl and the left mouse button or hold Ctrl and use the mouse wheel.

To control the speed of camera movement when using the mouse, change the view move rate and rotate rate from the settings.

Appearance

The appearance of the mine itself can be customized in several ways. You can toggle between wireframe only, wireframe + textures and texture only modes from the View menu. In addition, from the same menu you can toggle whether the mine will show the current light levels (or always appear bright) and whether certain features or objects should be displayed.

Selecting

Left-clicking will select a new point/line/side/segment/object, depending on your currently active selection mode, while right-clicking will always select the nearest object.

Tagging

Holding the left mouse button will draw a rectangle that can be used to quickly tag large blocks. The default mode is to tag everything that fits within the rectange; holding Shift will untag instead.

Dragging

The current point can be easily dragged by holding the left mouse button over the point, after which point it can be dragged with the mouse.

Quick Selection

Holding Shift enables the quick selection mode, which can be configured from the context menu. It allows you to quickly select any point, line, side or segment (depending on your currently active selection mode) from the mine with your mouse by left-clicking or right-clicking. Quick selection is not available in object or block selection modes.

Context Menu

The context menu can be opened by right-clicking the menu while holding Shift.

Text	Description
Points	Switches to the point selection mode.
Lines	Switches to the line selection mode.
Sides	Switches to the side selection mode.
Segments	Switches to the segment selection mode.
Objects	Switches to the object selection mode.
Block	Switches to the block selection mode.
Show Selection Candidates	Configures which selection candidates should be shown in quick selection.
Enable Quick Selection	Whether quick selection is enabled.
Align Viewer with Side	Only works in first-person perspective. Aligns the viewer towards the current side such that the new camera angle is a normal to the current side, and also aligns the new axes to match the direction of the lines making up that side.
Move Along Viewer Axes	Only works in first-person perspective. Whether movement actions should happen relative to the viewer's angle rather than that of the current side and segment.
Quick Copy Quick Paste Delete Block Collapse Edge Create Wedge Create Pyramid Undo Redo	Same as in the Edit menu.
Make Points Parallel	Makes the marked points parallel by moving them all onto the same plane as the current side.

Controls

Here is a table of all of the controls mentioned on this page:

Controls	Action
Left-click	Select a point, line, side, segment or object, depending on the current selection mode.
Right-click	Select the nearest object.
Hold left or right and move	If the cursor is at the currently selected point, start dragging the current point, or otherwise tag everything that fits in the drawn rectangle.
Shift Hold left or right and move	Untag everything that fits in the drawn rectangle.
Shift (held)	Quick selection (show candidates).
Shift + left-click	Quick selection.
Shift + right-click	Mine view context menu.
Ctrl (held)	Quick camera panning.
Ctrl+Shift (held)	Quick camera rotation.
Ctrl + left mouse button held	Quick pan in/out (move mouse up/down).
Ctrl + right mouse button held	Quick zoom (move mouse up/down).
mouse wheel	Quick zoom.
Ctrl + mouse wheel	Quick pan in/out.