Today’s quick dev tip is one that going to be useful for level designers.

You probably knew about snapping to the grid but did you know that you can customise the snap values, editing and adding your own?

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Below we have activated translation snapping and we have clicked on the drop-down next to it to see the currently available grid snap values. However, for my hypothetical example, my modular kit is built in increments of 25 units, so the current values available will not be suitable. This isn’t a problem because we can edit these values to suit our needs.

To do this you need to go to Edit then Editor Preferences. It is important to note here that changing settings in your Editor Preferences will affect your other projects associated with this engine. So just keep that in mind when editing the following settings.

At the top we want to search for the word grid.

We then want to scroll down until we reach the grid snapping area.

There are multiple sections here where you can edit translation, rotation and scale independently. For our example, we are looking for the translation which is at the top. We can add an extra element to the array. The problem with this is that it drops to the bottom. So for our case, it is better if we insert the 25 value between the 10 and the 50, to keep things organised.

There is no need to restart the editor and if we go back to our grid snap amounts we can see the newly added 25.

Being able to edit these values is a powerful thing to know about and will allow you to make your project work for you rather than you having to work to your project!

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