5 Reference Images of Different Landscapes

Australia

Tall Leafless trees with dull plants is the vegetation. The terrain is bumpy with hard soil. The lighting is quiet bright.

Palestine

The place is full of rocks and dull plants. The lighting is quiet dark

Sahara Desert

This is a photo of Sahara desert. The place is full of sand and rock while the rocks are reflecting the light from the sun. 

Canada

 This is a photo of Canada. Mountains are all over the place with bright green colour of vegetation like trees and the grass.

South Africa

This is South Africa. The landscape looks rough because of the brown stems and rocks is had. The lighting is dark a little bit 

Five Shortcuts

ctrl E = Rebuilds a level

M = Opens material editor

ctrl G = Switches you to game mode

F = Freeze

H = Hide selected objects

Viewports

Holding shift will make you fly faster

Holding the right mouse button makes you look around

W= move forward  A=move to the left  S= move backward  D= move to the right

Customising The Editor

Tool bars could be turned off and on.

To create a new tool bar =Tools - Customize keyboard - Tool bars - New

If you have allot of windows on your screen you can combine them by putting them on top of each other.

Turning on Automatic Backup will save you from loosing your work.

To create hot keys or shortcuts you can go to Tools then Customize keyboard then Keyboard.

10 Tips and Tricks related to the Sandbox User Interface

You can access different view ports by right clicking on the perspective on the top left corner.

You can isolate any thing by typing its name in the search box.

On the bottom at the states bar there is a lock selection button which locks the object you have selected and that means you only can work on the objects you selected.

The speed input box is the speed of the camera, playing with it will change the speed of zooming and rotating with the camera.

Pressing [ctrl G] will make you switch to the game mode.

You can reduce lag by changing the setting on the config spec and will make the performance better for slow computers, however it will reduce the quality of rendering.

The drop down menu on the tool bar at the left hand side is really useful since you can limit the selection of the things on your screen.

Name selection is really useful since you can group up chunk of selections together so that you do not need to select them one by one every time.

Right clicking anywhere will hide or unhide the tool bar.

Things that are found in the rollup bar are hidden somewhere in the file bar.

5 things i learned about the Sandbox folder structure.

Bin 32 and Bin 64 contains the game files and the editors. Bin 64 is faster and allows you to use allot of memory and it is recommended to be used if the windows have 64 bit operating system.

There are more than one folder like the code, editor, engine, game and the tools folder that has things stored inside it which you can make some changes on them.

The game folder is a very important folder. It contains PAK files were the important things of the game are inside like animations and sound.

The tools folder is also really important because it used to install exported plugins like Photoshop and 3d max.

The Crymax tools folder is a very useful tool and simple to install. Installing 3d max on is will give 3d max useful stuff and panels.